The Man Who Thought Life

{{short description|1969 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Man Who Thought Life

| image =

| caption =

| director = Jens Ravn

| producer =

| writer = Valdemar Holst
Jens Ravn
Henrik Stangerup

| starring = John Price

| music = Per Nørgård

| cinematography = Witold Leszczyński

| editing = Lars Brydesen

| distributor = ASA films

| released = {{film date|1969|5|9|df=yes}}

| runtime = 93 minutes

| country = Denmark

| language = Danish

| budget =

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The Man Who Thought Life ({{langx|da|Manden der tænkte ting}}) is a 1969 Danish science fiction thriller film directed by Jens Ravn and based upon the 1938 novel by Valdemar Holst.[http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnffuldvis&p_parmlist=filmid=193 "Manden der tænkte ting"], Danmarks Nationalfilmografi, Danish Film Institute, Retrieved 4 August 2008 It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2512/year/1969.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Man Who Thought Life |accessdate=7 April 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}