Before Winter Comes
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.
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Top 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
Mark Malicz
Komenski
Gertan Klauber
Russian Major
Hana Maria Pravda
Beata
George Innes
Bill
Tony Selby
Ted
Christopher Sandford
Johnny
Constantine Gregory
Russian Corporal
Hugh Futcher
Joe
Colin Spaull
Larry Dann
Jeffry Wickham
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