Product Details

• Actors: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver
• Directors: Douglas Sirk
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: South Korea
• Run Time: 126 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001V32TTA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,106 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Import from South Korea ,All Regions NTSC, English Sound with Optional French or Korean subtitles****PLOT: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

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From the German Side of the War, July 24, 2009

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Kit Wilson (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Import , All Regions), Douglas Sirk (DVD)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a unique film experience. Two German lovers, caught up in the horrors of war, struggle to make sense of their feelings and the future that might not come. Art Direction and Costume Design are all accurate to the period, which helps the audience obtain a sense of the darkness that was coming over Germany. Love is fragile and unique, no matter what side of the Atlantic.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All time heart breaking ending., June 24, 2009

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J. Thoms - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Import , All Regions), Douglas Sirk (DVD)

I haven't watched this movie for years but now that I know that it is available on DVD I will be ordering it soon. My wife and I used to watch this movie years ago every time it came on TV. Each time it ended we would ask ourselves "Why do we keep doing this?" The ending is so sad and ironic that we would be bummed for the rest of the night. Yet here I go ready to order the movie and do it all over again. The Amazon review sums up the plot pretty well so I won't elaborate. Highly recommended if you can stand the pain.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars cropped - avoid this pressing, October 25, 2010

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Robert E. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Import , All Regions), Douglas Sirk (DVD)

A Time to Love was designed for and filmed in Cinemascope - a 1 to 2:33 aspect ratio. This pressing chops off both sides of the picture to force the movie to fit wide screen TVs - an aspect ratio of 1 to 1:85 or so. Sirk's images fill the screen, there is no 'dead space' in his images. Chopping the picture in this way results in much important information being off screen (and clearly so as noses, elbows, etc. are constatly part on and part off on both sides. Even more so, the stunning compositions are all undercut and what is amazingly powerful imagery when seen as intended, is much deflated when cropped as it is here. This pressing lacks both the Universal-International logo and the CinemaScope credit and just starts with the title and cast/tech. credits (with spill way off the screen on both right and left as an indication of what is to come. The color is only so-so, as well.
There is an expensive multi-disc Sirk set from Carlotta in France that presents the film in the proper aspect ratio - I strongly suggest that anyone really interested in seeing this film as intended get that pressing and avoid this one.