Watch Before Winter Comes (1969) Official Trailer
5.8 / 10 IMDb January 17, 1969 1h 43m
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.
Director
Runtime
1h 43m
Release Date
January 17, 1969
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Status
Released
Rated
M
Languages
English, Russian, German
Country
United Kingdom
Writers
Producers
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
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Mark Malicz
as Komenski
Gertan Klauber
as Russian Major
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Hana Maria Pravda
as Beata
George Innes
as Bill
Tony Selby
as Ted
Christopher Sandford
as Johnny
Constantine Gregory
as Russian Corporal
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Hugh Futcher
as Joe
Colin Spaull
Larry Dann
Jeffry Wickham
Production Companies
Windward
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