Paracelsus (1943) on Blu-ray

Actor: Werner Krauss, Fritz Rasp
Director: G.W. Pabst
Genre: Drama
Year: 1943
Studio: Kino Classics
Length: 105 minutes
Released: 6/30/2020
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Standard; Soundtrack: German; Subtitles: English; audio commentary. In German with English subtitles.
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

Georg Wilhelm Pabst's masterfully rendered, hard-to-find biopic of the revolutionary 16th-century Swiss physician and philosopher-crafted under the Third Reich's wary auspices-casts Werner Krauss in the title role, and follows Paracelsus' bitter jousts with the medical and political establishments of Basel in the face of a plague overtaking community and country. Annelies Reinhold, Mathias Wieman, Fritz Rasp, Herbert Hübner also star.