Beloved Life

{{Short description|1953 film}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = Beloved Life

|image = Beloved Life.jpg

|caption = German film poster

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Geliebtes Leben}}

|director = Rolf Thiele

|writer = Rolf Thiele

|producer = {{ubl|Hans Abich|Werner Schwier|Rolf Thiele}}

|starring = {{ubl|Ruth Leuwerik|Carl Raddatz|Albert Lieven}}

|cinematography = Kurt Hasse

|editing = Caspar van den Berg

|music = Norbert Schultze

|studio = Filmaufbau

|distributor = {{ubl|Bavaria Film|Sascha Film (Austria)}}

|released = {{Film date|1953|10|15|df=yes}}

|runtime = 109 minutes

|country = West Germany

|language = German

}}

Beloved Life ({{langx|de|Geliebtes Leben}}) is a 1953 West German drama film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Carl Raddatz and Albert Lieven.{{cite book|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, NY|page=282|isbn=978-1571816559|jstor=j.ctt1x76dm6|last1=Hake |first1=Sabine |doi=10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6 |s2cid=252868046 }} Following her husband's release from a prisoner of war camp in 1947, a woman remembers their lives together since the pre-First World War era.

It was made at the Göttingen Studios and on location in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by Walter Haag and Erich Kutzner.