Life Lies Ahead of Us
1948, German. Directed by Günther Rittau.
Captain Harms still suffers from the bomb attack on his ship. He can not put up with sitting on land, but is afraid of take to the sea. Slowly he is becoming more and more frustrated and gradually falls into alcohol addiction.
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Günther RittauDirector
- Hermann SpeelmansKapitän Harms
- Gustav PüttjerLidden
- Alfred MaackBauer Mewes
- Ludwig SachsKellner
- Else RevalBäurin Mewes
- Herbert WeißbachBürgermeister
- Helga ZülchRenate Harms, seine Frau
- Michael GüntherPeter Harms, deren Söhnchen
- Carl KuhlmannPetersen, Renates Vater
- Werner VölgerHinnerk, früherer Schiffskoch
- Josef SieberOnnen, früherer Bootsmann
- Hildegard FränzelMartha, dessen Frau
Details
- Released
- 17 December 1948
- Original title
- Vor uns liegt das Leben
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Günther Rittau
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Life Lies Ahead of Us isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 December 1948. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Life Lies Ahead of Us?
Life Lies Ahead of Us (1948) was directed by Günther Rittau and stars Hermann Speelmans, Gustav Püttjer, Alfred Maack.