Give Me Life

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Give Me Life
Directed byKlaus Fery
Written byKlaus Fery
Ruth Goetz
Produced byKlaus Fery
Starring Grete Reinwald
Henry Stuart
Elizza La Porta
Cinematography Karl Attenberger
Guido Seeber
Production
company
Fery-Film
Release date
  • January 1928 (1928-01)
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Give Me Life (German: Schenk mir das Leben) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Klaus Fery and starring Grete Reinwald, Henry Stuart and Elizza La Porta. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.

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  1. Lamprecht p.195

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