Portrait from Life
A psychological thriller, a captivating mystery, a tender love story - all brilliantly COMBINED INTO ONE EXCITING MOTION PICTURE
Overview
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
- Budget
- $535,000
- Revenue
- $1,108,592
- Production
- Gainsborough Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Tags & Hashtags
Watch Portrait from Life Online
Video player provided by a third-party service. CineFlix does not host any content.
Official Trailer & More
Videos auto-play in sequence. If a video isn't available in your country, it's automatically skipped.
Cast
Mai Zetterling
Lidia
Robert Beatty
Campbell Reid
Guy Rolfe
Major Lawrence
Herbert Lom
Fritz Kottler Hendlemann
Patrick Holt
Ferguson
Arnold Marlé
Professor Franz Menzel
Sybille Binder
Eitel Hendlemann
Thora Hird
Mrs. Skinner
Gerard Heinz
Heine
Yvonne Owen
Helen
Philo Hauser
Hans Ackermann
John Blythe
Johnnie
Cyril Chamberlain
Supervisor
Betty Lynne
Interpreter
Donald Sinden
Minor Role
Michael Hordern
Johnson
Sam Kydd
Army Truck Driver
Eric Pohlmann
Search Group Leader
Anthony Steel
Bridegroom
Arthur Hambling
Coroner's Officer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Terence Fisher
- Producers
- Antony Darnborough,J. Arthur Rank
- Cinematography
- Jack Asher
- Composer
- Benjamin Frankel
Similar Movies
Laura
1944
The Butterfly Effect
2004
Shattered
1991
Hold Up
1974
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
Vanilla Sky
2001
50 First Dates
2004
A Small September Affair
2014
The Red Squirrel
1993
The Bourne Identity
2002
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
Carter
2022
Dark City
1998
Code 46
2003
Pilgrim
2000
Black Crown
1951
The English Patient
1996
Along Came Polly
2004
Reklaw
2021
A Tale of Two Sisters
2003
Recommendations
Remember
2015
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
Laura
1944
Winter's Tale
2014
Overdrive
2017
The Deadly Affair
1967
Marjorie Prime
2017
Islands
2025
Donovan's Echo
2011
Fallen Angel
1945
Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
2018
The Eternal Daughter
2022
Blind
2017
Mr. K
2025
The History of Love
2016
The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
The Truth About Emanuel
2013
Somewhere in the Night
1946
Vertigo
1958
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
User Reviews (0)
Sign in with Google to post a rating and review.
- No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.
User Reviews from TMDB
CinemaSerf
July 9, 2022
Guy Rolfe is "Major Lawrence" (another one), who sees a portrait of a young girl at a London art gallery and is enthralled. On further investigation he discovers from her refugee father - who recognises his long lost child from her picture - that she is a Jewish lady and is probably still in a post-war settlement camp somewhere in Germany. He sets off to track her down, discovering when he does find her that she "Hildegarde" (Mai Zetterling) has amnesia and can remember little. Not only that, bu…