
A Time to Love and a Time to Die(1958)
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.



Pola Negri
Mona Moreau

Clive Brook
Oskar Muller

Claude Gillingwater
Jean Moreau

Einar Hanson
André Moreau

Clyde Cook
Hans

Gustav von Seyffertitz
Pierre Corlet

Charles Lane
Colonel Duval

Ben Hendricks Jr.
Sergeant Caron
Barbed Wire is a drama, war, romance film released in 1927. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, it stars Pola Negri, Clive Brook, Claude Gillingwater. During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
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