The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp![](/media/filmstills/2012/berlinale-special/20122866_1_RWD_1380.jpg)
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Roger Livesey
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
USA 1943, Berlinale Special
Courtesy of Reliance MediaWorks and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd
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Deborah Kerr
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
USA 1943, Berlinale Special
Courtesy of Reliance MediaWorks and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd
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Roger Livesey
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
USA 1943, Berlinale Special
Courtesy of Reliance MediaWorks and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd
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Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
USA 1943, Berlinale Special
Courtesy of Reliance MediaWorks and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd
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Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook (Duellanten | duellists)
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
USA 1943, Berlinale Special
Courtesy of Reliance MediaWorks and ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp | Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
USA 1943, Berlinale Special
Courtesy of BFI Special Collections
Filmed in Technicolor, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP is widely regarded by film historians to be the ‘English answer to CITIZEN KANE’. Loosely based on the familiar British cartoon figure, Colonel Blimp, this complex film spanning four decades tells the story of a military man trying to practice his profession in a fair and gentlemanly, sportsmanlike manner who finds himself inevitably faced with the demands of modern warfare. Winston Churchill, the then prime minister, deemed the film to be ‘damaging for troops’ morale’ and refused to support it. More than a third of the work was cut and for many years a mutilated version of the film was all that could be seen in cinemas. This Berlinale screening will present the extensively restored original version.
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Thelma Schoonmaker
The editor of Martin Scorsese came to the screening of the restored version of the film by her deceased husband Michael Powell.
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp · Berlinale Special · Feb 11, 2012
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Rainer Rother, Thelma Schoonmaker
The section director of Retrospektive and Michael Powell’s widow presented the film.
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp · Berlinale Special · Feb 11, 2012