Before Winter Comes (1969)

Storyline

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. Before Winter Comes, the 1969 J. Lee Thompson English World War II (WWII) Austrian refugee camp military melodrama (“…a rare blend of picture”; “From The New Yorker short stury ‘The Interpreter’ by Frederick L. Keefe”) starring David Niven, Topol, Anna Karina, John Hurt, Anthony Quayle, Ori Levy, and John Collin