Master of Life and Death (German: Herr über Leben und Tod) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Maria Schell, Ivan Desny and Wilhelm Borchert.

[1] It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin and on location around the city and in Brittany.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter.

[2] Barbara is married to the distinguished professor of medicine Georg Bertram who once saved her father's life.

She stops him and takes the child away to Brittany in the hope that a change of location and nursing will help them to improve.