{{short description|1955 film}} {{Infobox film | name = I Know What I'm Living For | image =File:I Know What I'm Living For.jpg | caption = | director = [[Paul Verhoeven (German director)|Paul Verhoeven]] | producer = [[Hans Conradi]] <br> Ernst Neubach |based_on = | writer = [[Ernst Neubach]] <br> [[Claus Hardt]] <br> [[Margarete Hohoff]] | narrator = | starring =[[Luise Ullrich]] <br> [[Robert Freitag]] <br> [[Lil Dagover]] | music = [[Anton Profes]] | cinematography = [[Heinz Hölscher]] | editing = [[Lieselotte Prattes]] | studio =Neubach Film | distributor =[[Gloria Film]] | released = {{Film date|1955|05|26|df=yes}} | runtime = 100 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''I Know What I'm Living For''''' (German: '''''Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe''''') is a 1955 West German [[drama film]] directed by [[Paul Verhoeven (German director)|Paul Verhoeven]] and starring [[Luise Ullrich]], [[Robert Freitag]] and [[Lil Dagover]].<ref>Wolfgram p.96</ref><ref>Holmstrom p.249</ref> It was shot at the [[Bavaria Studios]] in [[Munich]] and [[location shooting|on location]] around [[Baierbrunn]] and [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Ernst H. Albrecht]] and [[Paul Markwitz]].
==Cast== * [[Luise Ullrich]] as Maria Pfluger * [[Robert Freitag]] as Peter Neumann, Mechaniker * [[Lil Dagover]] as Alice Lechaudier * [[Ruth Stephan]] as Anna, Wirtschafterin bei Maria * [[Ernst Ginsberg]] as Dr. Grumbach, RA. * [[Werner Fuetterer]] as Dr. Schneider, RA. * [[Antonia Mittrowsky]] as Frl. Fährmann, Jugendfürsogerin * [[Gert Fröbe]] as Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge * [[Michael Ande]] as Pit * [[Knut Mahlke]] as Jascho * [[Louise Kleve]] * [[Leo Fischer (actor)|Leo Fischer]] * [[Otto Clemente]] * [[Wolf Ackva]] * [[Hans Henn]] * [[Hans Cossy]] * [[Heinz Peter Scholz]] * [[Otto Brüggemann]] * [[Rudolf Reiff]] * [[Joachim Teege]] * [[Heini Göbel]] * [[Leo Siedler]] * [[Franz Loskarn]] * [[Barbara Gallauner]] * [[Ingeborg Thiede]] * [[Rolf Kralovitz]] * [[Beppo Schwaiger]] * [[Walter Sedlmayr]]
== References == {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Wolfgram, Mark. ''"Getting History Right": East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0048195}}
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