Dr. Hart's Diary (German: Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart) is a 1917 German silent war film directed by Paul Leni and starring Heinrich Schroth, Käthe Haack and Dagny Servaes. The film depicts a German field hospital in occupied Russian Poland during the ongoing First World War.
The film was created as part of a major effort to propagandize the German-Polish friendship that leads to the re-establishment of Poland by German forces in late 1916. It was produced by Paul Davidson's PAGU in association with the propaganda agency BUFA. Shortly afterwards, hoping to produce a number of similar films, the German government founded UFA which PAGU merged into.Prawer p.4
Cast Heinrich Schroth as Dr. Robert Hart Käthe Haack as Schlossherrin Ursula von Hohenau Dagny Servaes as Jadwiga Bransky Ernst Hofmann as Graf Bronislaw Krascinsky Adolf Klein as Graf Bransky
Preservation A 35 mm print of the film is held by George Eastman House.
References
Bibliography Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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