A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.8/10   

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Escritores:

Orin Jannings (writer)
Erich Maria Remarque (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

15 septiembre 1958 (Sweden)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Guerra

Frase comercial:

Born out of the blazing passions of war!

Plot:

In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of...

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | WWII | Nazi | Melodrama | Foreign Language Adaptation

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Germans were humans too.....

Reparto

John Gavin	...	Ernst Graeber
Liselotte Pulver	...	Elizabeth Kruse Graeber (as Lilo Pulver)
Jock Mahoney	...	Immerman
Don DeFore	...	Hermann Boettcher
Keenan Wynn	...	Reuter
Erich Maria Remarque	...	Professor Pohlmann
Dieter Borsche	...	Captain Rahe
Barbara Rütting	...	Woman Guerrilla
Thayer David	...	Oscar Binding
Charles Régnier	...	Joseph
Dorothea Wieck	...	Frau Lieser
Kurt Meisel	...	Heini
Agnes Windeck	...	Frau Witte
Clancy Cooper	...	Sauer
John Van Dreelen	...	Political Officer

También conocida como:

Will o' the Wisp
Tiempo de amar, tiempo de morir (Spain) [es]
Time de vivir y tiempo de morir (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]

Duración:

132 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Ruso

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) | 4-Track Stereo

Clasificación:

West Germany:12 (f) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1959) | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Berlin, Germany

Compañía:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Trivialidades:

Only a few of the German speaking actors were dubbed in the English Version, the majority of the non-American cast actually spoke English in the film.

Citas:

Professor Pohlmann: Without doubt, there would be no need for faith.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Assis dans le noir - Wesley Strick parle du secret de Douglas Sirk (2007) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

A TIME TO LOVE

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...