Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes

103 mins | Drama | March 24, 1969

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.

Before Winter Comes

103 mins | Drama | March 24, 1969

Before Winter Comes
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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Columbia Pictures, Windward
Original title Before Winter Comes
Directors Ariel Levy, J. Lee Thompson
Writers Andrew Sinclair

Cast

David Niven

as Major Burnside

Chaim Topol

as Janovic

Anna Karina

as Maria

John Hurt

as Lieutenant Pilkington

Anthony Quayle

as Brigadier Bewley

Ori Levy

as Captain Kamenev

John Collin

as Sergeant Woody

Karl Stepanek

as Count Kerassy

Guy Deghy

as Kovacs

Mark Malicz

as Komenski

Gertan Klauber

as Russian Major

George Innes

as Bill

Tony Selby

as Ted

Constantine Gregory

as Russian Corporal

Hugh Futcher

as Joe