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Before Winter Comes

Before Winter Comes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 17, 1969

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

59%

Original Title

Before Winter Comes

Production Companies

Windward, Columbia Pictures

Director

J. Lee Thompson

Description

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.