A Matter of Life and Death (film)

A Matter of Life and Death 1946 is a romantic fantasy film created by the British writingdirectingproducing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War. The film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring.

OnMay 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Carter David Niven is a British Royal Air Force pilot trying to fly a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber back to his base in England after a mission over Germany. He has ordered his crew to bail out, without revealing that his own parachute has been shot up. He manages to contact June Kim Hunter, an American radio operator based in England and talks with her for a few minutes before jumping without a parachute.Peter should have died at that point, but Conductor 71 Marius Goring, the guide sent to escort him to the Other World, misses him in the thick fog over the English Channel. The airman wakes up on a beach near Junes base. At first, he assumes he is in the afterlife but, when a de Havilland Mosquito flies low overhead, discovers, to his bewilderment, that he is still alive. ........

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