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An Ordered Life

19801h Movie

Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WW2. Daniel Gerroll plays his son Stephen who, against his father's wishes, joined the Wehrmacht and was killed in a railway accident in 1943.

DirectorPeter Smith
WriterStephen Deutsch
ProducerRosemary Hill

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Cast · Directed by Peter Smith

CJColin Jeavons
Colin Jeavons
The Composer
NB
Nell Brennan
Amalia
DGDaniel Gerroll
Daniel Gerroll
Peter
MH
Margaret Heery
Minna
AL
Andrew Lodge
Karl Rosen
CSClive Swift
Clive Swift
Director of Austrian State Radio
SU
Steve Ubels
Music Student
TS
Tony Sibbald
American Sergeant
RR
Richard Rees
Chinese-American Solider
MR
Mark Rogers
German Soldier
AL
Alec Linstead
Nazi Official
JS
Jennie Stoller
Jena Rosen

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An Ordered Life hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around September 28, 1980. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.