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The Call of Life (1937)

The Call of Life poster
Original title
L'Appel de la vie
Directed by
Georges Neveux
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man must choose between passion and duty when an unexpected encounter calls his settled life into question. The story follows his emotional struggle with the consequences of that decision.

melancholicreflectivedeliberatepoignantstylizedintrospectivebittersweet

What happens

The Call of Life (French: L'appel de la vie) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Georges Neveux and starring Victor Francen, Renée Devillers, and Daniel Lecourtois. It is a French-language film made in Berlin by the German studio UFA and released in France by the company's subsidiary L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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