''I Know What I'm Living For'' (German: ''Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe'') is a 1955 West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

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and starring Luise Ullrich,

Robert Freitag Robert Peter Freytag (7 April 1916 in Vienna – 8 July 2010 in Munich), known professionally as Robert Freitag, was an Austrian-Swiss stage and screen actor and film director. Life Freitag was the son of the Swiss opera singer Otto Freitag (Ott ...

and

Lil Dagover Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar ...

.Holmstrom p.249 It was shot at the

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and on location around

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and

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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s Ernst H. Albrecht and

Paul Markwitz Paul Markwitz (16 July 1908 – 19 March 1968)Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films Volume 5, Berlin 2001, , pg. 281f was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. He worked on over 50 films between 1935 and 1 ...

Cast

* Luise Ullrich as Maria Pfluger *

as Peter Neumann, Mechaniker *

as Alice Lechaudier *

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as Anna, Wirtschafterin bei Maria * Ernst Ginsberg as Dr. Grumbach, RA. *

Werner Fuetterer Werner Fuetterer (10 January 1907 in Barth, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – 7 February 1991 in Benidorm, Province of Alicante, Spain) was a German film actor. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1925 and 1967. In his early film career, Fuetterer ...

as Dr. Schneider, RA. *

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as Frl. Fährmann, Jugendfürsogerin *

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as Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge *

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as Pit *

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as Jascho *

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* Hans Henn *

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* Heinz Peter Scholz *

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Joachim Teege Joachim Teege (November 30, 1925 – November 19, 1969) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Adventures of Fridolin'' (1948) - Heini Bock * '' Und wieder 48'' (1948) - Reisender * '' The Staircase'' (1950) - Herbert Ehrke * ''The Merr ...

Heini Göbel Heini Göbel (1910–2009) was a German film, stage and television actor. In 1955 he portrayed Hercule Poirot in a German television adaptation of Agatha Christie's ''Murder on the Orient Express'' the first time the novel had been adapted for th ...

* Leo Siedler *

Franz Loskarn Franz Loskarn (3 May 1890 – 22 April 1978) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Behind Monastery Walls (1928 film), Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928) * ''Almenrausch and Edelweiss (1928 film), Almenrausch and Edelweiss'' (1928) * ''L ...

* Barbara Gallauner * Ingeborg Thiede * Rolf Kralovitz *

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Walter Sedlmayr Walter Sedlmayr (6 January 1926 – 14 July 1990) was a popular German stage, television, and film actor from Bavaria. His murder in 1990 was widely publicized. Career After his 1945 wartime '' Abitur,'' Sedlmayr served as a '' Flakhelfer'' ...

References

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.

External links

* 1955 films 1955 drama films German drama films West German films 1950s German-language films 1950s German films Films directed by Paul Verhoeven (Germany) Gloria Film films Films shot in Bavaria Films shot at Bavaria Studios {{1950s-Germany-drama-film-stub