I Know What I'm Living For

1955 film

26 May 1955 (1955-05-26)

Running time

100 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

I Know What I'm Living For (German: Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Luise Ullrich, Robert Freitag and Lil Dagover.^[1] ^[2] It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location around Baierbrunn and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Paul Markwitz.

Cast

Luise Ullrich as Maria Pfluger
Robert Freitag as Peter Neumann, Mechaniker
Lil Dagover as Alice Lechaudier
Ruth Stephan as Anna, Wirtschafterin bei Maria
Ernst Ginsberg as Dr. Grumbach, RA.
Werner Fuetterer as Dr. Schneider, RA.
Antonia Mittrowsky as Frl. Fährmann, Jugendfürsogerin
Gert Fröbe as Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
Michael Ande as Pit
Knut Mahlke as Jascho
Louise Kleve
Leo Fischer
Otto Clemente
Wolf Ackva
Hans Henn
Hans Cossy
Heinz Peter Scholz
Otto Brüggemann
Rudolf Reiff
Joachim Teege
Heini Göbel
Leo Siedler
Franz Loskarn
Barbara Gallauner
Ingeborg Thiede
Rolf Kralovitz
Beppo Schwaiger
Walter Sedlmayr

References

^ Wolfgram p.96
^ Holmstrom p.249

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Wolfgram, Mark. "Getting History Right": East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.