So Little Time (film)

So Little Time
German DVD cover
Directed byCompton Bennett
Written byJohn Cresswell
Based onJe ne suis pas une Heroine by Noelle Henry
Produced byAubrey Baring
Maxwell Setton
StarringMarius Goring
Maria Schell
Lucie Mannheim
CinematographyOswald Morris
Stephen Dade
Edited byVladimir Sagovsky
Music byRobert Gill
Louis Levy
Shura Cherkassky
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British Picture Corporation
Release date
  • 18 April 1952 (1952-04-18)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£91,096 (UK)[1]

So Little Time is a 1952 British World War II romantic drama film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Marius Goring, Maria Schell and Lucie Mannheim.[2]

The film is based on the novel Je ne suis pas une héroïne by French author Noëlle Henry. So Little Time is unusual for its time in portraying its German characters in a mainly sympathetic manner, while the Belgian Resistance characters are depicted in an aggressive, almost gangster-type light. So soon after the war, this was not a narrative viewpoint British audiences and critics expected in a British film and there was considerable protest about the film's content.[3] Marius Goring considered it as one of his favourite films and was a rare romantic leading role for him, though one of several films in which he played a German officer.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p498
  2. ^ "So Little Time". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  3. ^ Time Out Film Guide, Penguin Books London, 1989, p.551 ISBN 0-14-012700-3