Life Begins Today (Swedish: I dag börjar livet) is a 1939 Swedish drama film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Sture Lagerwall, Sonja Wigert and Nils Ohlin.Qvist & Von Bagh p.44 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Spjuth. It is based on the 1933 play Pétrus by the French writer Marcel Achard.
Synopsis Wera Holm, a ballerina, waits outside an apartment block with a pistol waiting for the womanising choreographer who has now dropped her for one of the other dancers. She takes two shots at him, misses, and then dives into a nearby apartment of the artist Petrus Sommar. When the choreographer turns up dead, it appears there is someone else who has reason to kill him.
Cast Sture Lagerwall as Petrus Sommar, målare Sonja Wigert as Wera Holm, dansös Nils Ohlin as Börje Fredin, balettmästare Margareta Bergfeldt as Karin, Petrus syster Dagmar Ebbesen as Moster Johanna Axel Högel as Morbror Karl Barbro Kollberg as Nelly, balettflicka Ziri-Gun Eriksson as Margot, balettflicka Ingrid Borthen as Dittan, balettflicka Nils Johannisson as Stålhagen, detektiv Ivar Kåge as Kriminalchefen Olga Appellöf as Polissystern Naemi Briese as Modell Ernst Brunman as Polisen vid skrivmaskinen Erland Colliander as Bartendern Greta Ericson as Lola Hartwig Fock as Poliskonstapel Österberg Lillebil Kjellén as Balettdansös Eivor Landström as Kvinnan som söker modelljobb Arne Lindblad as Pianisten Gerd Mårtensson as Balettdansös John Norrman as Polis Hanny Schedin as Servitris
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Bibliography Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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