Doctor
of Stalingrad
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We open with heavy combat action around Stalingrad and speeches by Hitler.
The story is about the life of a German doctor in a Soviet prison camp after the
war. He is in an operating room, saving the life of a badly wounded German
soldier when the Soviet troops break in and take him away, leaving the soldier
to his sad fate. The doctor and so many others are marched through the
bitter cold to a Soviet prisoner camp.
The year is 1949 and a beautiful Soviet doctor makes her rounds of the
infirmary, pronouncing that too many sick men are fit for work. The German doctor
tells her that some of the men are not well enough and that they will die in the
cold. She tells him that they will go to work anyhow.
In the evening, the Soviet doctor is in her quarters in a filmy negligee and a
visitor comes calling. It is another German doctor, a prisoner but young
and handsome. It is obvious that they are more than friends. The
older doctor breaks in, saying that one of the men is dieing and must have
immediate surgery. She puts on a robe and tells him that they must wait
for the Soviet regional doctor to arrive in a week or so. The man will be
dead by then - he asks at least for some ether so he can operate. She
reminds him that it is against the rules for a German prisoner to operate and she
sends him out into the bitter cold. They manage the operation anyhow.
There is a court of inquiry and the chief Soviet doctor demands punishment for
the German doctor - but the situation changes greatly when the young son of the
Camp Commandant suddenly needs a specialist to save his life - and the Doctor of
Stalingrad just happens to be an expert in that particular field.
During this time, the prisoners talk about a work stoppage, but within hours
after the conversation, the guards enter the barracks and take away the leaders
of the movement. There is a snitch among their ranks! He is caught
and suffers the fate of all such snitches - he is killed. All the
prisoners are mustered in the snow and the Officer of the Guard is going to
shoot them all unless the ones who killed the snitch confess.
There is much more, all leading up to a bittersweet ending.
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