A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
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Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a distinctly late-'50s Hollywood banality. The film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the classic World War I anti-war novel All Quiet On the Western Front -- and who makes a cameo appearance in the film as an elderly schoolteacher. The film stars John Gavin as Ernst Graber, a young Nazi soldier home on leave during the height of World War II. While on leave, he falls in love and marries Elizabeth Kruze (Lilo Pulver). With bombs falling all around the young couple, they set up house with a kindly old woman. Then Elizabeth becomes pregnant. But before Ernst can grasp the reality of his becoming a father, he is sent back to the war -- to fight the brutal battle along the Russian front. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- John Gavin - Ernest Graeber
- Keenan Wynn - Reuter
- Don DeFore - Boettcher
- Jock Mahoney - Immerman
- Barbara Rutting - Woman Guerrilla
- Dorothea Wieck - Frau Lieser
- Agnes Windeck - Frau Witte
- Klaus Kinski - Gestapo Lieutenant
- Alexander Engel - Warden
- Wolf Harnisch - Sgt. Muecke
- Lisa Helwig - Frau Kleinert
- Liselotte Pulver - Elizabeth Kruse
- Erich Maria Remarque - Pohlmann
- Thayer David - Oscar Binding
- Dieter Borsche - Capt. Rahe
- Charles Regnier - Joseph
- Kurt Meisel - Heini
- Clancy Cooper - Sauer
- Alice Treff - Frau Langer
- Dana J. Hutton - Hirschland
- Karl Ludwig Lindt - Dr. Karl Fresenburg
- John van Dreelen - Political Officer
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer(s):
- Orin Jannings
- Producer(s):
- Robert Arthur
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