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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) [NR]

Release Date:
July 26, 1943

Original Title:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Alternate Titles:
Het Begon in Berlijn
The Adventures of Colonel Blimp
Vida y muerte del coronel Blimp
블림프 대령의 삶과 죽음
직업 군인 캔디씨 이야기
코로넬 블림프의 삶과 죽음

Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Romance | War

Production Companies:
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
The Archers

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
BR: e 12  JP: G  PT: e 12  US: NR 

Runtime: 163

An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.

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General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

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British Film Institute (BFI)
2012
#93		 Critics' Top 100 Poll
Greatest Films of All Time

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Production

Assistant Director:
Tom Payne
Kenneth Horne

Clapper Loader:
Jim Body

Costume Design:
Joseph Bato

Director:
Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger

Director of Photography:
Georges Périnal

Editor:
John Seabourne Sr.

Makeup Artist:
George Blackler
Dorrie Hamilton

Original Music Composer:
Allan Gray

Producer:
Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger

Production Design:
Alfred Junge

Sound:
C.C. Stevens
Desmond Dew

Writer:
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell

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