Before Winter Comes
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.
- Production
- Windward
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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
Gertan Klauber
Russian Major
George Innes
Bill
Tony Selby
Ted
Christopher Sandford
Johnny
Constantine Gregory
Russian Corporal
Colin Spaull
Larry Dann
Jeffry Wickham
John Savident
Bruno W. Pantel
Eduard Linkers
Crew
- Director
- J. Lee Thompson
- Writers
- Andrew Sinclair
- Producers
- Robert Emmett Ginna
- Cinematography
- Gilbert Taylor
- Composer
- Ron Grainer
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CinemaSerf
June 3, 2023
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…