The Doctor of Stalingrad ( also known as Battle Inferno) is a 1958 German drama film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok and Hannes Messemer. It is an adaptation of the 1956 novel The Doctor of Stalingrad by Heinz G. Konsalik.Davidson & Hake p. 140 The film addresses the issue of German Prisoners of War held by the Soviet Union in camps well into the 1950s. The principal character Doctor Fritz Böhler was loosely modelled on Ottmar Kohler, known as the "Angel of Stalingrad".
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willy Schatz and Robert Stratil.
Main cast O.E. Hasse as Doctor Fritz Böhler Eva Bartok as Captain Alexandra Kasalinskaja Hannes Messemer as Oberleutnant Pjotr Markow Mario Adorf as Pelz, Sanitäter Walter Reyer as Doctor Sellnow Vera Tschechowa as Tamara Paul Bösiger as Fähnrich Peter Schultheiß Leonard Steckel as Major Dr. Kresin, Distriktarzt Valéry Inkijinoff as Oberstleutnant Worotilow, Lagerkommandant Michael Ande as Sergej, Worotilows Sohn Siegfried Lowitz as Walter Grosse Til Kiwe as Sauerbrunn Wilmut Borell as Pastor Rolf von Nauckhoff as Oberst Eklund, Swedish Red Cross
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