No Time for Flowers

No Time for Flowers is a 1952 American romantic comedy film directed by Don Siegel and starring Viveca Lindfors, Paul Christian and Ludwig Stössel. 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.

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.

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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