Herr über Leben und Tod 1955

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is about to commit the irreparable when Barbara manages to interrupt his fatal act. By mutual agreement, husband and wife decide that Barbara will go to Saint-Guénolé in Brittany, where she and their son will be cared for by Louise Kerbrec, Georg's former nurse, in the hypothetical hope that the boy's condition will improve. What they do not know yet is that Barbara will meet there another doctor, Daniel Karentis, much more sympathetic than Georg and also much handsomer.

Cast:

Maria Schell
Barbara Bertram 

Ivan Desny
Dr. Daniel Karentis 

Wilhelm Borchert
Professor Georg Bertram 

Fritz Tillmann
Dr. Peter 

Reinhold Bernt
Bahnwärter 

Walter Bluhm
Werner Hansen