Dr. Hart's Diary

Dr. Hart's Diary
Directed byPaul Leni
Written byHans Brenner
Produced byPaul Davidson
Starring
CinematographyCarl Hoffmann
Production
company
Distributed byPAGU
Release date
  • 1917 (1917)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Dr. Hart's Diary (German: Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart) is a 1917 German silent war film directed by Paul Leni and starring Heinrich Schroth, Käthe Haack and Dagny Servaes. The film depicts a German field hospital in occupied Russian Poland during the ongoing First World War.

The film was created as part of a major effort to propagandize the German-Polish friendship that leads to the re-establishment of Poland by German forces in late 1916. It was produced by Paul Davidson's PAGU in association with the propaganda agency BUFA. Shortly afterwards, hoping to produce a number of similar films, the German government founded UFA which PAGU merged into.[1]

  1. ^ Prawer p.4