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A Matter of Life and Death (film) - Wikipedia
A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - IMDb
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
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A Matter of Life and Death - official trailer - 4K restoration - YouTube
A heavenly 4K restoration - in cinemas December 2017. Find screenings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0veuSLLWZ0
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | The Criterion Collection
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes, and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the hereafter arrives to correct the bureaucratic error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black-and-white modernist afterlife. Intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.
https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death
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Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death) (1947) - Rotten Tomatoes
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stairway_to_heaven_1947/
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A Matter of Life and Death review – timely rerelease of sublime celestial romance | Film | The Guardian
Powell and Pressburger’s wartime drama, starring David Niven as an erroneously alive bomber pilot, is visually extraordinary and politically topical.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/08/matter-life-death-review-re-release-powell-pressburger-david-niven-fighter-pilot
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | BFI
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s audacious Technicolor fantasy, WWII airman David Niven finds himself summoned to heaven after surviving a plane crash that should have killed him.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b0210f1