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UNITED KINGDOM · 1969
Before Winter Comes
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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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post-war displacement · Cold War tensions · refugee camps · cultural mediation · military bureaucracy
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