A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958

Action / Drama / Romance / War

6
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 4126 4.1K

war crimes

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Plot summary

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

Director

Douglas Sirk Photo
Douglas Sirk

Top cast

Klaus Kinski Photo
Klaus Kinski as Gestapo Lieutenant
Jock Mahoney Photo
Jock Mahoney as Immerman
Paul Frees Photo
Paul Frees as Several Characters
Agnes Windeck Photo
Agnes Windeck as Frau Witte
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1.18 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 3
2.2 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

Conventional approach to WW2 drama, except told from

Conventional approach to WW2 drama, except told from the German side. Largely spoilt by John Gavin's wooden acting. Jock Mahoney would have been better in the lead, not in a bit part. Keenan Wynn lifts it whenever he appears. Directed by German, based on German book. Author has small part. He sums up his philosophy as need to believe in God. (Believe it if you want!)
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

A piece of marvellous and elegant film direction

A 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.
Reviewed by mark b 8 / 10

Take the aesthetics of tear-jerking movies like Imitation

Take 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,
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