Dr. Ketel

Dr. Ketel

80 mins | Thriller | Sept. 17, 2011

Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he’s needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Nobody knows his name or that by day he’s the caretaker of a shabby tenement building. He pushes boundaries and suffers defeats that cost him the last of his strength. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.

Dr. Ketel

80 mins | Thriller | Sept. 17, 2011

Dr. Ketel
Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he’s needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Nobody knows his name or that by day he’s the caretaker of a shabby tenement building. He pushes boundaries and suffers defeats that cost him the last of his strength. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers German Film and Television Academy Berlin, Schattenkante
Original title Dr. Ketel
Directors Linus de Paoli
Writers Anna de Paoli, Linus de Paoli

Cast

Ketel Weber

as Dr. Ketel

Amanda Plummer

as Louise

Burak Yigit

as Ercan

Pit Bukowski

as Pit

Lou Castel

as Dr. Wissmann

Sema Poyraz

as Anne

Hermann Beyer

as Breuer

Till Kleinert

as Till

Waléra Kanischtscheff

as Punk Otto

Jörg Bundschuh

as Schönrock

Sabine Winterfeldt

as Oberschwester Huck

Robert Meller

as Wolf-Schützke

Michael Pink

as Security

Patrick Schorn

as Security

Sandra Nedeleff

as Reporterin

Kay Ramczyk

as Seminarteilnehmer