I know what I live for
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | I know what I live for |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Verhoeven |
| script |
Ernst Neubach Margarete Hohoff Claus Hardt |
| production | Ernst Neubach |
| music | Anton Profes |
| camera | Heinz Hölscher |
| cut | Lieselotte Prattes |
| occupation | |
and 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 | |
I know what I live for is a German melodrama from 1955 by Paul Verhoeven with Luise Ullrich in the leading role.
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Maria Pfluger had worked as a nurse during World War II . In the greatest need, Mary, who has always felt committed to the protection and preservation of life, turned out to be a saving angel when she took two small children under her wing. The existence of the two boys is extremely threatened in the Third Reich, because Pit and Jascho are both of Jewish faith. But now, a decade later, the war is long over, and yet Maria has adopted the two now adolescents instead of children and accordingly grown to love them.
As a strange woman, the French Alice Lechaudier, claims to Pit and Jascho, Maria fights for her “sons” like a lion mother. As long as a court is seeking a decision on this matter, the children should be placed in a welfare institution. Maria has never spoken about the Jewish identity of the two boys so that Pit and Jascho would not find out about the terrible end of their parents in the concentration camp. After all, Maria sees no other option than at least telling the whole truth to the court in order to make the reason for her behavior understandable. But even if she makes good arguments - the judiciary does not believe her, and so the juvenile court gives Pit and Jascho Madame Lechaudier custody.
Production notes
I know what I live for was created at the beginning of 1955 in Munich and the surrounding area, Baierbrunn and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The premiere took place on May 26, 1955 in Stuttgart, the Berlin premiere was on June 2 of the same year.
Hans Conradi was in charge of production. Ernst H. Albrecht designed the film structures implemented by Paul Markwitz .
Reviews
Der Spiegel wrote: “A soulful, but not sweet film (director: Paul Verhoeven), which by no means simplifies the current problem, but rather arbitrarily makes it even more complicated. He even dares unpopular flashbacks to the time of the Jewish death. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Time-related drama, the demanding subject matter of which is devalued by overly emotional realization."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short review in Der Spiegel from June 8, 1955
- ↑ I know what I live for. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .
Web links
- I know that I live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I know what I live for at filmportal.de