Before Winter Comes

IMDb link: 0064075
IMDb rating: 5.8 (456 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, War
Director: J. Lee Thompson, Anna Karina
Cast: John Hurt, David Niven, Topol and others

Release date: 17 Jan 1969
Release year: 1968
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: interpreter, refugee camp, austria, russian army, post world war two, british army, british army officer, army major, army lieutenant, brigadier

Plot:

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 people into either the American or Russian zones.

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