A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A Time to Love and a Time to Die

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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. While hopelessly searching for his parents, he meets lovely Elizabeth Kruse, daughter of a political prisoner; together they try to wrest sanity and survival from a world full of hatred.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in A Time to Love and a Time to Die:

John Gavin
Liselotte Pulver
Jock Mahoney
Don DeFore
Keenan Wynn
Erich Maria Remarque

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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. While hopelessly searching for his parents, he meets lovely Elizabeth Kruse, daughter of a political prisoner; together they try to wrest sanity and survival from a world full of hatred.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzDouglas Sirk's haunting masterpiece wartime romance story is set in 1944.
User Review - 10/10 by Harry EA truly great, but little known film. It's a really beautiful story. Well worth your time.
User Review - 10/10 by Art SAll I can say is, if you dig classic films and don't know Douglas Sirk, you need to learn about him now! Great over dramatic romance set in the waining days of WWII from a German officer's perspective. Great classic Hollywood stuff!
User Review - 10/10 by U.N. ODouglas Sirk's little seen Nazi extravaganza. Imagine: WRITTEN ON THE WIND with brown shirts!
User Review - 10/10 by John YA truly great, but little known film. It's a really beautiful story. Well worth your time.
User Review - 8/10 by Mark BTake the aesthetics of tear-jerking movies like Imitation of Life or Magnificent Obsession, set them on the Russian Front and in Germany in 1944, and you get some idea of this film. A melange of melodrama, camp, death, and a short appearance by Klaus Kinski as a heartless Gestapo clerk, ATTLAATOD is actually a pretty good film. Especially weird is to see those loveable mugs, the Wehrmacht , dealing with Russian partisans. The truly fun part of the film happens when Ernst Graeber goes home on leave and makes time with good girl Elizabeth Kruse. Every time they go on a date, the USAAF bombs the shit out of them. And of course there are the symbolic characters like Joseph, the hiding hateless Jew, and the Heine, the infantile piano prodigy who happens to burn people alive at his own concentration camp. Still, though, I liked this movie a lot. Nothing else liked appeared in American films until Peckinpaugh's Cross of Iron in 1977. Whatever else you want to say about Sirk, he used the widescreen to great effect,
User Review - 8/10 by Reginald RI don't know. Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron has an original and mesmerizing style. James Coburn is sergeant Steiner, a man with a love/hate relationship with his life on the Russian-German front circa 1944. It's a very good film, that's all I know. Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is about a german soldier coming home on a three week leave from the aforementioned Russian-German front. Only, the vacation is no picnic either. Frankly, they're bombing the shit out of Berlin, and it's not nice for anybody. The guy is looking for his parents, but finds a girl instead. Generally great stuff. All in a Night's Work is a fun movie. Shirley MacLaine is really cute and Dean Martin is better than usual(obviously usually he sucks). Good film, just not anything too profound. Miffo, from Sweden. Is about a young priest called Tobias(curiously looking like a greatly upgrated version of Toby Maguire) who is trying to get his life in order. Struggling for independence from his wealthy parents and high-class background, struggling with his ambitions to do good in his profession, and generally struggling in his messy personal life, he meets a girl in a wheelchair, who is of the lower uneducated classes and looking like a polish hooker, so naturally there's immediate attraction. For some odd reason the film occationally threatens to suffocate itself with stupid Hollywood cliches, but luckily director Daniel Lind Lagerlöf has enough style and grace to steer through the sometimes a bit too conventional plot succesfully. Some delicious scenes. A smart small film that yet doesn't want to stray far from the mainstream. Insomnia is a good solid mediocre thriller from the Memento guy.
User Review - 8/10 by Rink SAs Godard wrote in Les Cahiers du Cinéma, scenes of love remind one of the war, and vice versa.
User Review - 8/10 by Stella DUnusual to see a Hollywood production of a WWII war movie, but based in the point of view of the Germans on the front line. Douglas Sirk goes back to his homeland post defeat to create an amazing love story, supposedly Godard's favorite Sirk film, of a soldier on leave and a girl in his hometown, bombed to pieces. The set pieces, filmed in bombed out areas that was left as it was post-war, adds an incredible authentic look that just isn't in a lot of older war movies. And the obvious is how Sirk handles the camerawork, and the dialogue. Although like "Schindler's List", Germans speaking English might be a little strange, but don't let that stop you.
User Review - 8/10 by lucy wA piece of marvellous and elegant film direction signed by Douglas Sirk. It has one of the best recreations of apocalyptic Germany\Russia during WWII ever filmed; with detailed and incredibly real-looking sets, beautiful yet merciless landscapes, and a characteristic lush cinematography that enhances the dread and destruction present everywhere. The central romance is a bit of light in such a dark place - even if John Gavin isn't the greatest actor coming out from Hollywood. What amazes me is how Sirk, with all the ingredients to make a sappy and unwatchable movie (over-sentimental writing, uninspired acting and overly dramatic music, for example), is capable of turning all that into such a splendid and moving work of art. A great film.

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