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That Was My Life (1944)

That Was My Life poster
Original title
Das war mein Leben
Directed by
Paul Martin
Genre
fiction film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man looks back on his life and the choices he made. The film follows his personal journey through events in Germany during the 1940s.

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What happens

That Was My Life (German: Das war mein Leben) is a 1944 German drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Carl Raddatz, Hansi Knoteck and Leny Marenbach. It was shot at the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam and the Filmstad at The Hague, both in the German-occupied Netherlands and on location in Berlin and Friedeberg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Arthur Schwarz. It was based on a novel by Gustav Kampendonk. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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