No Time for Flowers


No Time for Flowers is a 1952 American romantic [comedy film] directed by Don Siegel and starring Viveca Lindfors, Paul Christian and Ludwig Stössel. Featuring a Cold War setting and some location shooting in Vienna, it was distributed by RKO Pictures.

Plot

A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attaché who has just arrived from the United States.

Cast

Judith M. Kass offers this assessment: “No Time for Flowers is a largely unsuccessful attempt at comedy in which Viveca Lindfors portrays a Ninotchka-like Czech, eager for both advancement in the Communist world and in the luxuries of the West.

Theme

Biographer Judith M. Kass notes this thematic element in the film: