---
title: 'The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Oswald'
released: '1927-12-08'
countries:
  - 'German Reich'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-transformation-of-dr-bessel-1927'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017827/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)

1927 · German Reich


## Synopsis

The Transformation of Dr. Bessel is a 1927 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Sophie Pagay and Hans Stüwe. The film was based on a novel by Ludwig Wolff. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo. It has thematic similarities with Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 film The Man I Killed. Whereas that film featured a French soldier partially assuming the identity of a dead German, in Oswald's film a German is able to survive by pretending to be French.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Oswald](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-oswald)
- **Producer:** [Richard Oswald](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-oswald)
- **Screenplay:** [Herbert Juttke](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-juttke)
- **Director of Photography:** [Axel Graatkjær](https://cinepixo.com/people/axel-graatkj-r)

## Cast

- [Hugo Döblin](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-doblin)
- [Sig Arno](https://cinepixo.com/people/sig-arno)
- [Ferdinand Bonn](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdinand-bonn)
- [Jaro Fürth](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaro-furth)
- [Eva Speyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-speyer)
- [Lydia Potechina](https://cinepixo.com/people/lydia-potechina)
- [Sophie Pagay](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-pagay)
- [Gertrud Eysoldt](https://cinepixo.com/people/gertrud-eysoldt)
- [Angelo Ferrari](https://cinepixo.com/people/angelo-ferrari)
- [Betty Astor](https://cinepixo.com/people/betty-astor)
- [Harry Nestor](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-nestor)
- [Hertha von Walther](https://cinepixo.com/people/hertha-von-walther)
- [Jakob Tiedtke](https://cinepixo.com/people/jakob-tiedtke)
- [Ilka Grüning](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilka-gruning)
- [Rosa Valetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosa-valetti)

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