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The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger —together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s
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A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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…most of their films. The best-known of these are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). In 1981, Powell and Pressburger were recognised for their…
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Marius Goring as Conductor 71 with David Niven as Peter Carter.
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