''Life Begins Tomorrow'' () is a 1933 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
Werner Hochbaum and starring
Erich Haußmann,
Hilde von Stolz and
Harry Frank.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 202]
After working on the film, the
left-wing
Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...
Hochbaum emigrated to Austria due to the coming to power of the
Nazis
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...
, although he did return to make films for the regime.
The film's sets were designed by
Gustav A. Knauer and
Alexander Mügge.
Plot
A cafe
violinist is released from prison. His neighbors' whispered gossip and the violinist's own flashbacks reveal that he was imprisoned for murder. Which begs questions such as: Has his wife, a waitress, begun a love affair while he was in jail? And will this give the violinist another temptation to murder?
Artistic devices
Cast
References
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1933 films
1933 drama films
Films of Nazi Germany
German drama films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Werner Hochbaum
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
Films scored by Hanson Milde-Meissner
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