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Before Winter Comes

6.0(14)19691h 43m1

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.

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English

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical24 Mar 1969
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical17 Jan 1969
  • AustraliaAU

    • PhysicalPG30 Jul 1990
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical12 Aug 1969

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Before Winter Comes was released on 17 January 1969.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/3/2023

    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 wheels of their procedures - but he has a secret and when Niven and the Ru…

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