Before Winter Comes

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.

Cast

David Niven

Major Burnside

Chaim Topol

Janovic

Anna Karina

Maria

John Hurt

Lieutenant Pilkington

Anthony Quayle

Brigadier Bewley

Ori Levy

Captain Kamenev

John Collin

Sergeant Woody

Karl Stepanek

Count Kerassy

Guy Deghy

Kovacs

Mark Malicz

Komenski