Before Winter Comes

6.019691h 43mReleased

Drama

Comedy

Overview

Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of assigning the displaced persons into either the American or Russian zones.

StatusReleased

Release Date1969-01-17

Runtime1h 43m

LanguagesEnglishPусскийDeutsch

CountriesUnited Kingdom

Cast & Crew

David Niven

as Major Burnside

Chaim Topol

as Janovic

Anna Karina

as Maria

John Hurt

as Lieutenant Pilkington

Anthony Quayle

as Brigadier Bewley

Ori Levy

as Captain Kamenev

John Collin

as Sergeant Woody

Karl Stepanek

as Count Kerassy

Guy Deghy

as Kovacs

Mark Malicz

as Komenski

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Jun 3, 2023

6/10

David Niven stars in this rather unremarkable post-war comedy drama set in an Austrian camp that sorts out and repatriates displaced people. He leads the British contingent with Ori Levy ("Capt. Kamenev") his Russian counterpart with whom he has an uneasy sort of truce. Topol is their charismatic interpreter/peace broker "Janovic" who oils the whee…

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