Beloved Life

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Beloved Life
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German Geliebtes Leben
Directed by Rolf Thiele
Written byRolf Thiele
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Kurt Hasse
Edited byCaspar van den Berg
Music by Norbert Schultze
Production
company
Filmaufbau
Distributed by
Release date
  • 15 October 1953 (1953-10-15)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Beloved Life (German : Geliebtes Leben) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Carl Raddatz and Albert Lieven. [1] Following her husband's release from a prisoner of war camp in 1947, a woman remembers their lives together since the pre-First World War era.

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It was made at the Göttingen Studios and on location in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by Walter Haag and Erich Kutzner.

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References

  1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 282. ISBN   1571816550. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.