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Before Winter Comes
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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Synopsis

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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