Second Hand Destiny
Directed by	Wolfgang Staudte
Written by	Wolfgang Staudte
Produced by	Walter Koppel Gyula Trebitsch
Starring	Erich Ponto Heinz Klevenow Marianne Hoppe
Cinematography	Willy Winterstein
Edited by	Alice Ludwig
Music by	Wolfgang Zeller
Production company	Real Film
Distributed by	Herzog-Filmverleih
Release date	6 October 1949 (1949-10-06)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Second Hand Destiny ( German: Schicksal aus zweiter Hand) is a 1949 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and starring Erich Ponto, Heinz Klevenow and Marianne Hoppe. It is sometimes considered a film noir. ^[1] At the time the director Staudte was mostly known for his work for the East German studio DEFA.

It was made between May and July 1949 at the Wandsbek Studios of the Hamburg-based company Real Film. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.

A man now working as a clairvoyant narrates in flashback how he has sunk from once being a happily married man to committing uxoricide.

• Spicer, Andrew (2010). Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press. ISBN  978-0-8108-7378-0.

• Second Hand Destiny at IMDb

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