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A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a 1958 Eastmancolor CinemaScope drama war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring John Gavin and Liselotte Pulver.
A 1958 war drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring John Gavin and Liselotte Pulver. It follows a German soldier's leave from the Russian front and his romance with a political prisoner's daughter in bombed Germany.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Douglas Sirk
- 1958-07-04
Aug 6, 2013 · Douglas Sirk — the master of the Hollywood melodrama — turns back to his native Germany at the time of the Second World War for the film that would stand as his penultimate American feature: A...
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- Eurekaentertainment
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Retreating from the Russian front after the failure to take Moscow in 1944, German soldier Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) is granted a three-week furlough.
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- John Gavin
- Douglas Sirk
- War
In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed.
In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long-awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed.
Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque after the success of All Quiet on the Western Front’s film adaptation, Sirk’s penultimate Hollywood picture follows a German soldier on furlough who finds fleeting love amid the rubble-strewn remains of his hometown. A haunting, existential romance.
