Curt Thomalla
Writing
Biography
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.
Known For
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.
Falsche Scham
Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.
Geißel der Menschheit
A woman who has inherited hemophilia is rejected by her doctor fiance after he finds out about her illness. Fearing rejection, she hides it from her new husband, a wealthy older banker.
Der Fluch der Vererbung
Educational film about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.
Die Geschlechtskrankheiten und ihre Folgen
A fly, taken with humanity, decides that it would be best if all flies were wiped out.
Die Fliege Majanka und ihre Abenteuer
Documentary on how the starvation blockade affected the public health.
Die Wirkung der Hungerblockade auf die Volksgesundheit
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.
Maya the Bee
A German silent documentary film that deals with the controversial and innovative work of Dr. Eugen Steinach, an Austrian physiologist and endocrinologist. The film documents Steinach's research on human biology, particularly his experimental work on the rejuvenation of aging men, which involved a surgical procedure called vasoligation.