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A Double Life (1954)

A Double Life poster
Original title
Das zweite Leben
Directed by
Victor Vicas
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man who lost his memory in World War I discovers he has a family in both Germany and France. He must choose between the two lives he has built.

melancholiccontemplativetenseslow-burnbittersweetemotional

What happens

A Double Life or Double Destiny (French: Double destin, German: Das zweite Leben) is a 1954 French-West German drama film based upon the play Siegfried (1928) by Jean Giraudoux, directed by Victor Vicas and starring Michel Auclair, Simone Simon and Barbara Rütting. It was shot at the Wiesbaden Studios in Hesse and on location around Paris and Kiedrich in the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alfred Bütow and Ernst Schomer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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