| Dr. Hart's Diary | |
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| Directed by | Paul Leni |
| Written by | Hans Brenner |
| Produced by | Paul Davidson |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Carl Hoffmann |
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| Distributed by | PAGU |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent 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]