Professor Mamlock (1938)

Made in Stalins Soviet Union Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi antiSemitism openly Based on a play by a GermanJewish exile in Moscow Friedrich Wolf and directed by an AustrianJewish exile in Moscow Herbert Rappaport the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politicallyaware fascismresisting son an intern as their lives become entangled with the Nazis rise to power in 1930s Germany where they live and practice Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff