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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ehrlich's colleague, Dr. Robert Koch, the discoverer of the anthrax bacillus, 70-year old German Refugee Albert Basserman gives the picture's outstanding performance. The alert tilt of his head, his probing eyes, even his wary stance are an embodiment of the professional scientific skeptic, who is not unwilling to believe, but has to be shown. Once Ehrlich has shown him, he becomes a gracious, humane old man, remains professionally a skeptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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