UNITED KINGDOM · 1969

Before Winter Comes

J. Lee Thompson
post war displacement cold war tensions refugee camps cultural mediation military bureaucracy
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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.

Year1969
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorJ. Lee Thompson
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