General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
CountryGreat Britain
Runtime2 hours 43 minutes
Production year1943
World premiere10 June 1943
Release date
1 January 1944
Brazil
e 12
26 July 1943
Great Britain
10 May 1952
Japan
G
11 October 1946
Portugal
e 12
30 August 1944
Sweden
4 May 1945
USA
NR
Budget188,812 GBP
Worldwide Gross$90,179
ProductionThe Archers, Independent Producers
Also known as
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Colonel Blimp, Coronel Blimp, Vida y muerte del Coronel Blimp, A Vida do Coronel Blimp, Axehasti morfi, Blimp ezredes élete és halála, Coronel Blimp - Vida e Morte, Coronel Blimp: Vida e Morte, Det begynte i Berlin, Det började i Berlin, Duellen, Duello a Berlino, Het begon in Berlijn, Kahraman subay, Le colonel Blimp, Leben und Sterben des Colonel Blimp, Se alkoi Berliinissä, The Adventures of Colonel Blimp, Viaţa şi moartea Colonelului Blimp, Ystävykset, Zivot i smrt pukovnika Blimpa, Život i smrt pukovnika Blimpa, Życie i śmierć pułkownika Blimpa, Αξέχαστη μορφή, Животът и смъртта на полковник Блимп, Жизнь и смерть полковника Блимпа, 老兵は死なず
Theo Kretschmar-SchuldorffYou know that, after the war, we had very bad years in Germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting. Money lost its value, the price of everything rose except of human beings. We read in the newspapers that the after-war years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail. Well in Germany, the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.
