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Director:
Writers:
Alfred Hayes (novel)
Joseph Kessel (French dialogue)
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Release Date:
17 December 1953 (USA) more
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Cast

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Kirk Douglas ... Robert Teller
Dany Robin ... Lise Gudayec / Madame Teller
Gabrielle Dorziat ... Adèle Lacaud
Barbara Laage ... Nina
Fernand Ledoux ... Fernand Lacaud
Robert Strauss ... Sgt. Johnny Blackwood
Marthe Mercadier ... La fille de la terrasse
George Mathews ... Henderson
Richard Benedict ... Pete
Leslie Dwyer ... Le sergent anglais
Sydney Chaplin ... Un soldat

Brigitte Bardot ... Mimi
Nedd Willard
Serge Reggiani ... Claude Lacaud
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Act of Love (USA)
Quelque part dans le monde (France) (working title)
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Runtime:
France:95 min | USA:108 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #16748, Adult Audience) | West Germany:16
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Kirk Douglas met his German wife-to-be, Anne Buydens, when she applied for a job as his assistant on the French location shoot for this film. more
Quotes:
Robert Teller: The River Seine. All my life I wanted to see it. Finally I saw it, with a gun in my hand. Travel, twentieth-century style. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Veraz (1991) more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
A real find, 16 February 2002
8/10
Author: gerritschroder from Los Angeles, California

More than any other movie I've seen, this one draws a dark picture of what the statistical enormity and bureaucratic obscenity of WWII did to individuals during (and after) the Second World War. This is a love story set against the new way of dealing with the logistics of millions of people on the move in wartime Europe -- on either side. The big point is that it's difficult to draw a line between the sides in the brutal impersonality of the events that crush people like the characters in this story.

Kirk Douglas is great, of course, and the direction in the film is always intersting. Hard to believe this was made as late as 53.

See this if you can -- I saw it on TCM recently in a Kirk Douglas festival. For that matter, watch all the Kirk Douglas flicks you can -- the guy had either great taste or great luck.

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