Title: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Original Title: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Year: 1958
Info
- Country: USA Germany
- Length: 132 Minutes (2 hours 12 min)
- Genre: Drama Romance War
- Studios: Universal Pictures
- Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Dates
- United States: June 25 1958
Plot
At the end of the Second World War, a German official, Ernst Graeber (John Gavin), who fought against the Soviet front he asks permission a few days to go home with his family. When he reaches the city where he was born, nothing is as it was before, everything had changed because of the bombings, poverty and terror suffered by the population. Ernst's life changed after meeting a girl named Elizabeth (Liselotte Pulver), of which he falls in love, making new things arise and to doubt the war in which he fought. A film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring by John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver and Jock Mahoney. A war drama produced by Universal International Pictures. Filmed in different places of Germany.
Cast
Director:
Ernst Graeber
Elizabeth Kruse Graeber
Reuter
Oscar Binding
Gestapo Lieutenant
Videos
'A time to Love and a Time to Die' trailer
March 11 2016
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Trivia
This is one of few American or occidental war or World War II films where the focus, subject or main characters were the enemy
Because of the film's uncommon compassionate portrayal of Germans during WW2 it was banned in Israel and the Soviet Union.
The film was entirely shot in West Germany, with a cast of Germans and Americans.
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