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On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
Liselotte Pulver
- Elizabeth Kruse
- (as Lilo Pulver)
John van Dreelen
- Political Officer
- (as John Van Dreelen)
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- TriviaThe film was banned in Israel and the Soviet Union because of its uncommon compassionate portrayal of Germans during WWII.
- GoofsKeenan Wynn uses pounds instead of kilos to describe Don DeFore's wife's weight. Later Don DeFore also uses pounds instead of kilos when he mentions his wife having lost weight since he last saw her.
- Quotes
Ernst Graeber: You're more lovely every time I see you. Only this time, you look like the next time.
- Crazy creditsActor Karl Ludwig Lindt is credited in opening credits but not in the closing credits.
- ConnectionsEdited into Raid on Rommel (1971)
- SoundtracksA TIME TO LOVE
(uncredited)
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Lyrics by Charles Henderson
Performed by uncredited blonde in cabaret scene
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Germans were humans too.....
...in this time of generalizations and terminally low attention spans (not to say inexistent historical memory) people who have been the hollywoodesque cartoonish image of all 1930/40s Germans to be goose-stepping-order-barking-black-uniformed-ss-genocidal-murders could have their insight skills sharpened a bit more by this movie directed by Detlef Sierck (his real name). Actually lots of people in the 3rd Reich must have felt like Sierck himself, who obviously loved his fatherland but hated the Nazis and the way they tried to rape and pervert the very idea of the 'german nation' to their twisted ends...and those who were not lucky enough to expatriate like he did would have lived like the protagonists of this drama, suffering through an unwanted war having to witness both the cruelty of the regime AND the devastations from the war that the regime forced upon its people (the political prisoners forced to clear rubble from the air raids is a TELLING scene indeed!). The only thing that upset me a bit was the censorship forced on the filmmaker which in several scenes has to resort to silly 'visual tricks' to 'avoid' showing swastikas (a tube blocking our sight over the Military Police gorget in one of the first scenes, the queer angle at which a NSDAP member crosses our p.o.v. in the restaurant scene so we can't see the front of his armband)....now think a bit...if a catastrophe strikes and leaves this movie the ONLY proof of semi-historical value regarding WW2 the historians of the future will be oblivious of the centrepiece of nazi imagery...how STUPID is that???
Down with censorship I say, either sexual, political, intellectual et al...
Down with censorship I say, either sexual, political, intellectual et al...
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- kullthevalusian
- Feb 21, 2005
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- Also known as
- There's a Time to Love
- Filming locations
- Hopfenohe, Grafenwöhr, Bavaria, Germany(Russian village in ruins)
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- Gross worldwide
- $31,523
- Runtime2 hours 12 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) officially released in India in English?
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