''No Time for Flowers'' is a 1952 American

romantic comedy film Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

directed by

Don Siegel Donald Siegel ( ; October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film and television director and producer. Siegel was described by ''The New York Times'' as "a director of tough, cynical and forthright action-adventure films whose taut ...

and starring

Viveca Lindfors Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress. Biography Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the da ...

and Paul Christian and

Ludwig Stössel Ludwig Stössel (12 February 1883 – 29 January 1973) was an actor born in Lockenhaus, now Austria, then Hungary. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Biography St ...

Plot

A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.

Cast

as Anna Svoboda * Paul Christian as Karl Marek *

as Papa *

Adrienne Gessner Adrienne Gessner (23 July 1896 – 23 June 1987) was an Austrian actress. Gessner appeared in over fifty film and television shows during her career, including the 1955 costume film '. Gessner appeared in a mixture of German and Austrian films dur ...

as Mama * Peter Preses as Emil Dadak *

Manfred Inger Manfred Inger (1907–1984) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern m ...

as Kudelka * Peter Czejke as Stefan Svoboda * Fred Berger as Anton Novotny * Oskar Wegrostek as Johann Burian * Helmut Janosch as Milo

References

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* * * 1952 films 1952 romantic comedy films American black-and-white films American romantic comedy films Cold War films Films critical of communism Films directed by Don Siegel Films scored by Herschel Burke Gilbert Films set in Prague Films shot in Vienna RKO Pictures films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{romantic-comedy-film-stub