The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice (German: Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Rudolf Forster, Olga Chekhova and Heidemarie Hatheyer.

The future star Marianne Koch made her debut in this film, having been discovered by the director while working at the Bavaria Studios in Munich.

[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Bi and Botho Hoefer.

Professor Hesse, the chief physician at a clinic, has a very comfortable existence with his loving wife Irene and two children.

His plans to escape abroad are thwarted and he finds himself in a moral dilemma when he hears his son is ill needing medical treatment.