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. 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.
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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