Curt Thomalla

Curt Thomalla

1890-07-12
48 (1939-03-03)
Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]

German screenwriter, doctor, and public health educator. He worked in the area of public health and eugenics into the Nazi era before dying by suicide in 1939.

Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]

German screenwriter, doctor, and public health educator. He worked in the area of public health and eugenics into the Nazi era before dying by suicide in 1939.

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Falsche Scham 1926

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes cover the stories of students looking to pick up prostitutes, a careless medical student, a wet nurse who has infected an infant, and a country girl afraid of seeking treatment.
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Maya the Bee 1926

Maya the Bee is a dramatised documentary film displaying living bees and other forest animals interacting with each other. Based on the book by Waldemar Bonsels, he also assisted himself in cinematography, along with A.O. Weitzenberg. The film was restored in 2004, after a decent copy (nitrate) of this film survived in the Finnish Film Archives possession and was done by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv with the support of Waldemar Bonsels-Stiftung.
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Die Fliege Majanka und ihre Abenteuer 1927

A fly, taken with humanity, decides that it would be best if all flies were wiped out.