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Before Winter Comes
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Based on a short story which originally appeared in The New Yorker, this fiIm stars David Niven (The Guns of Navarone, Separate Tables) as stiff-necked British Army Major Burnside, charged with closing a dispIaced persons camp in occupied Austria immediately following World War ll. Burnside is confounded by his new duties - he has a romantic attachment to the front - and his charges incIude refugees from all over Europe and the USSR, as weIl as the very green Lt. PiIkington (John Hurt, 10 Rillington PIace), a Ianguage speciaIist whose command of Latin is unlikeIy to heIp speed up the processing of the displaced. PiIkington enIists Janovic (TopoI, FiddIer on the Roof), a muIti-Iingual gypsy and con-man, to serve as camp interpreter. Janovic takes on the roIe of mediator and fixer both in the camp and in the countryside. When the commander of the Russian Zone questions Burnside about Janovic, and suggests he may have been a Russian deserter, Burnside is faced with making a decision about Janovic's fate. This complex, funny, and poignant tale about the remnants of war aIso features Anthony QuayIe (The Guns of Navarone) and Anna Karina (Pierrot le Fou). Newly remastered. |
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