Abundance of Life

{{Short description|1950 film}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = Abundance of Life

|image = Abundance of Life.jpg

|caption =

|director = Wolfgang Liebeneiner

|producer = {{Unbulleted list|Walter Koppel|Gyula Trebitsch}}

|writer = {{Unbulleted list|Artur A. Kuhnert|Wolfgang Liebeneiner|Ludwig Tieck (novel)}}

|starring = {{Unbulleted list|Erika Müller|Ingeborg Körner|Gunnar Möller}}

|music = Michael Jary

|cinematography = Willy Winterstein

|editing = Walter Fredersdorf

|studio = Real Film

|distributor = Allianz Filmverleih

|released = {{Film date|1950|5|18|df=y}}

|runtime = 82 minutes

|country = West Germany

|language = German

}}

Abundance of Life ({{langx|de|Des Lebens Überfluss}}) is a 1950 West German romantic comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Erika Müller, Ingeborg Körner, and Gunnar Möller.{{cite book|ref={{sfnref|Bock|Bergfelder}}|editor-first1=Hans-Michael|editor-last1=Bock|editor-link1=Hans-Michael Bock|editor-first2=Tim|editor-last2=Bergfelder|title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2009|location=New York|isbn=978-1-57181-655-9|page=284}} It was one of the last of the Rubble films made in the immediate post-war years. It updates a story by Ludwig Tieck to modern-day Hamburg, addressing the shortage of housing in the heavily bombed city.

It was made at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and also shot on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mathias Matthies.