"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a different movie from the 1951 version where Louis Jouvet also plays Dr Knock.
Acting
Jouvet's predatory charm makes quackery look aspirational.
Direction
Dual director credit hides Jouvet's controlling perfectionism.
Writing
Jules Romains' cynical satire on medicine as salesmanship.
Director
Louis Jouvet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jouvet played Knock on stage for fifteen years before filming, refining the character's predatory physicality into something almost balletic.
Jules Romains' 1923 play targeted the medicalization of society; this 1933 version arrived as Nazi eugenics made the satire uncomfortably prophetic.
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