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Sources of Life (German: Quellen des Lebens) is a 2013 German film directed by Oskar Roehler. Cast. Jürgen Vogel as Erich Freytag; Moritz Bleibtreu as Klaus Freytag; Kostja Ullmann as Young Klaus Freitag; Meret Becker as Elisabeth Freytag; Sonja Kirchberger as Marie Freytag; Lavinia Wilson as Gisela Ellers; Leonard Scheicher as Robert Freytag ...
Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang: Ned Kelly: Frank Mills: 1909: Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: Ludwig van Beethoven: Harry Baur: The Life of Moses: Moses: Pat Hartigan: Saul and David: King David: Maurice Costello: King Saul: William V. Ranous: 1910: Pyotr Velikiy: Peter the Great: Pyotr Voinov ...
Feb 14, 2013 · Sources of Life: Directed by Oskar Roehler. With Jürgen Vogel, Meret Becker, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lavinia Wilson. This is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Oskar Roehler
- 2013-02-14
Jul 18, 2013 · Sources of Life (Quellen des Lebens): Karlovy Vary Review. Moritz Bleibtreu and Jurgen Vogel star in filmmaker Oskar Roehler's German family saga that spans three postwar generations. By...
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In 1947, single mother Lora Meredith dreams of becoming a famous Broadway actress. Losing track of her young daughter Susie at a crowded Coney Island beach, she asks a stranger, Steve Archer, to help her find the girl. Meanwhile, Susie has been taken up and looked after by Annie Johnson, who is also a single mother. Her daughter Sarah Jane is about...
The screenplay was written by Eleanore Griffin and Allan Scott. Together with discussions with director Douglas Sirk, they decided to make changes to reflect more of the current society of 1959. As a result, the plot of the 1959 film has numerous major changes from the 1933 novel and the 1934 film. In the novel, the "Lora" character, Bea Pullman, b...
Sirk's Imitation of Life premiered in Chicago on March 17, 1959, followed by Los Angeles on March 20 and New York City on April 17. Following its New York opening, it became number one in the US for two weeksbefore Universal put the film into general release on April 30. Though it was not well-reviewed upon its original release and was viewed as in...
Both the 1934 and 1959 films were issued in 2003 on a double-sided DVD from Universal Studios. A two-disc set of the films was issued by Universal in 2008. A Blu-ray with both films was released in April 2015;this edition has been re-mastered, and is not identical with earlier DVD releases. Madman Entertainmentin Australia released a three-disc DVD...
Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven (2002) is an homage to Sirk's work, in particular All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Imitation of Life. The 1969 Diana Ross & the Supremes song "I'm Livin' in Shame" is based upon this film. The 2001 R.E.M. song "Imitation of Life" took its title from the film, though none of the band members had ever watched it.
Fischer, Lucy, ed. (1991). Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1645-5. OCLC 22279801. Collection of essays, reviews, interviews,...Staggs, Sam (2009). Born To Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-37336-8. OCLC 234176069.Ryan, Tom. "Sirk and John M. Stahl: Adaptations and Remakes". In Tom Ryan (ed.). The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions.Imitation of Life essay by Matthew Kennedyon the National Film Registry websiteImitation of Life at IMDbImitation of Life at the TCM Movie DatabaseImitation of Life at AllMovieMay 13, 2024 · May 12, 2024, 12:31 PM ET (The Guardian) Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel. history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Early years, 1830–1910. Origins.
Feb 14, 2013 · This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer.
