No Time for Flowers is a 1952 American romantic comedy film directed by Don Siegel and starring Viveca Lindfors, Paul Christian and Ludwig Stössel.Mayer p.348 Featuring a Cold War setting and some location shooting in Vienna, it was distributed by RKO Pictures.
Plot A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attaché who has just arrived from the United States.Kass, 1975 p. 110-111: Plot sketch.
Cast Viveca Lindfors as Anna Svoboda Paul Christian as Karl Marek Ludwig Stössel as Papa Adrienne Gessner as Mama Peter Preses as Emil Dadak Manfred Inger as Kudelka Peter Czejke as Stefan Svoboda Fred Berger as Anton Novotny Oskar Wegrostek as Johann Burian Helmut Janosch as Milo Hilde Jaeger as Mrs. Pilski Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Flower Woman Reinhold Seigert as Police Guard Willi Schumann as Police Sergeant Ilka Windish as Woman Drunk Anton Mitterwurzer as Sedlacek Teo Prokop as Czech peasant Robert Eckert as Taxi driver Peter Brand as First soldier Karl Schwetter as Second soldier
Critical Appraisal Judith M. Kass offers this assessment: “No Time for Flowers is a largely unsuccessful attempt at comedy in which Viveca Lindfors portrays a Ninotchka-like Czech, eager for both advancement in the Communist world and in the luxuries of the West.Kass, 1975 p. 100
Theme
Biographer Judith M. Kass notes this thematic element in the film:
Footnotes
Sources
Mayer, Geoff. Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press, 2012.
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