Life Begins Today
{{short description|1939 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Life Begins Today
| image =File:Life Begins Today.jpg
| caption =
| director = Schamyl Bauman
| producer = Arthur Spjuth
| based_on = Pétrus by Marcel Achard
| writer = Oscar Hemberg
Schamyl Bauman
| starring =Sture Lagerwall
Sonja Wigert
Nils Ohlin
| music = Sune Waldimir
| cinematography = Hilmer Ekdahl
| editing =
| studio =Sandrew-Bauman
| distributor =Sandrew-Baumanfilm
| released = {{Film date|1939|08|15|df=yes}}
| runtime = 113 minutes
| country = Sweden
| language = Swedish
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Life Begins Today (Swedish: I dag börjar livet) is a 1939 Swedish drama film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Sture Lagerwall, Sonja Wigert and Nils Ohlin.Qvist & Von Bagh p.44 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Spjuth. It is based on the 1933 play Pétrus by the French writer Marcel Achard.
Synopsis
Wera Holm, a ballerina, waits outside an apartment block with a pistol waiting for the womanising choreographer who has now dropped her for one of the other dancers. She takes two shots at him, misses, and then dives into a nearby apartment of the artist Petrus Sommar. When the choreographer turns up dead, it appears there is someone else who has reason to kill him.
Cast
- Sture Lagerwall as Petrus Sommar, målare
- Sonja Wigert as Wera Holm, dansös
- Nils Ohlin as Börje Fredin, balettmästare
- Margareta Bergfeldt as Karin, Petrus syster
- Dagmar Ebbesen as Moster Johanna
- Axel Högel as Morbror Karl
- Barbro Kollberg as Nelly, balettflicka
- Ziri-Gun Eriksson as Margot, balettflicka
- Ingrid Borthen as Dittan, balettflicka
- Nils Johannisson as Stålhagen, detektiv
- Ivar Kåge as Kriminalchefen
- Olga Appellöf as Polissystern
- Naemi Briese as Modell
- Ernst Brunman as Polisen vid skrivmaskinen
- Erland Colliander as Bartendern
- Greta Ericson as Lola
- Hartwig Fock as Poliskonstapel Österberg
- Lillebil Kjellén as Balettdansös
- Eivor Landström as Kvinnan som söker modelljobb
- Arne Lindblad as Pianisten
- Gerd Mårtensson as Balettdansös
- John Norrman as Polis
- Hanny Schedin as Servitris
References
Bibliography
- Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0031468}}
Category:1930s Swedish-language films
Category:Films directed by Schamyl Bauman
Category:Films set in Stockholm
Category:Swedish films based on plays
Category:Films based on works by Marcel Achard
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