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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…
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Before Winter Comes
60%
Movie
1h 43m
AI Analysis
Before Winter Comes (1969) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Before Winter Comes (1969) — a movie tagged as Drama and Comedy with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: 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 Russi… Our models also surface themes such as war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~103 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Before Winter Comes 60% (14 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
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.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1969-01-17
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- TMDB rating
- 6.0
- TMDB ID
- 204092
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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 ... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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Cast
David Niven
Major Burnside
Chaim Topol
Janovic
Anna Karina
Maria
John Hurt
Lieutenant Pilkington
Anthony Quayle
Brigadier Bewley
Ori Levy
Captain Kamenev
John Collin
Sergeant Woody
Karl Stepanek
Count Kerassy
Guy Deghy
Kovacs
- M
Mark Malicz
Komenski
Gertan Klauber
Russian Major
- H
Hana Maria Pravda
Beata
George Innes
Bill
Tony Selby
Ted
Christopher Sandford
Johnny
Constantine Gregory
Russian Corporal
- H
Hugh Futcher
Joe
Colin Spaull
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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 wheels of their procedures - but he has a secret and when Niven and the Russian find out, he finds life becomes quite precarious. The comedy struggles, to be honest - Niven tries hard, but Topol too hard - neither seem to really want to be here. The presence of the naively optimistic young "Lieut. Pilkington" (John Hurt) and the cynical "Brig. Bewley" (Anthony Quayle) - who is aware of an incident in Niven's past, suggests that there is an underlying message in the film, but nothing really hits home. There are duty versus compassion clashes, and imperialist versus communist ones too - but the setting and characterisations don't support any real substance to these, and the films flails a bit before an ending that is surprisingly robust.
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