''A Life for Do'' (german: Ein Leben für Do) is a 1954 West German

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directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring

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and Heidi Becker. It was shot at the

Tempelhof Studios The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial bac ...

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and on location around

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and Zurich. The film's sets were designed by the

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and Walter Kutz.

Plot

Do lives with her foster father on a farm in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring coun ...

. Concerned that she is developing romantic feelings for him he sends her away to school in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

Cast

as Thomas *

as Do *Heidi Becker as Klein Do *

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as Maurice *Renate Schacht as Vivian *

Gisela Trowe Gisela Trowe (5 September 1922 in Dortmund – 5 April 2010 in Hamburg) was a German actress and voice actress. Selected filmography * 1948: '' Street Acquaintances'' * 1948: ''The Time with You'' * 1948: ' * 1948: '' Affaire Blum'' * 1951: ...

as Marguerite * Michael Cramer as Konrad *

Paul Esser Paul Esser (24 April 1913 – 20 January 1988) was a German stage and television actor and voice actor. He is remembered for playing the lead role in the Sender Freies Berlin version of the detective series ''Tatort''. Esser was born in Gel ...

as Onkel Karl *Erna Haffner as Tante Anni *

Brigitte Rau Brigitte Rau (31 December 1933 – 24 September 1979) was a German actress. Life Brigitte Rau was born on the last day of 1933, the daughter of Otto Kurt Rau and Martha Adele Örtel. She appeared as an actress on stage, but she mainly became k ...

as Gritli *

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as Kapellmeister *Maria Wimmer as Vera * Iwa Wanja as Wirtin

References

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* 1954 drama films German drama films West German films Films directed by Gustav Ucicky Films set in South Africa Films set in Switzerland Films shot in Switzerland Films shot at Tempelhof Studios German black-and-white films 1950s German films 1950s German-language films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub