The Transformation of Dr. Bessel
| The Transformation of Dr. Bessel | |
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| Directed by | Richard Oswald |
| Written by | Herbert Juttke Georg C. Klaren |
| Based on | Doktor Bessels Verwandlung by Ludwig Wolff |
| Produced by | Richard Oswald |
| Starring | Jakob Tiedtke Sophie Pagay Hans Stüwe Agnes Esterhazy |
| Cinematography | Axel Graatkjær |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (German: Dr. Bessels Verwandlung ) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Sophie Pagay and Hans Stüwe. The film was based on a novel by Ludwig Wolff. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. It has thematic similarities with Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 film The Man I Killed. Whereas that film featured a French soldier partially assuming the identity of a dead German, in Oswald's film a German is able to survive by pretending to be French.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Seemann and Bruno Lutz.