Life Begins Tomorrow
{{Short description|1933 film}}
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| name = Life Begins Tomorrow
| image = Life Begins Tomorrow.jpg
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| director = Werner Hochbaum
| producer = Emil Unfried
| writer = Carl Behr
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| starring = {{ubl|Erich Haußmann|Hilde von Stolz|Harry Frank}}
| music = Hanson Milde-Meissner
| cinematography = Herbert Körner
| editing =
| studio = Ethos-Film
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| released = {{Film date|1933|8|4|df=y}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
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| gross =
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Life Begins Tomorrow ({{langx|de|Morgen beginnt das Leben}}) is a 1933 German drama film 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 Hochbaum emigrated to Austria due to the coming to power of the Nazis, 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
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|quote = This story... is a sort of anthology of 1920s International Style devices: canted angles, rapid montages, City Symphony passages, flamboyant camera movements, multiple-image superimpositions, and huge close-ups of faces, hands, and objects. The work on sound is no less ambitious, with voice-overs, sound motifs (a carousel, a canary’s call-and-response to a chiming doorbell), offscreen dialogue, and harsh auditory montages of traffic and city life. Everything from Impressionist subjective-focus point-of-view to Expressionist shadow work comes into play.
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Cast
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- Erich Haußmann as Robert
- Hilde von Stolz as Marie
- Harry Frank as Stehgeiger
- Alfred Beierle
- Eta Klingenberg
- Gustav Püttjer
- Edith Schollwer as Kellnerin
- Walter von Lennep as Sänger
- Arthur Wilke
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References
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Bibliography
- {{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 | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0024351}}
{{Werner Hochbaum}}
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Werner Hochbaum
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films scored by Hanson Milde-Meissner
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