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Votes for A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s audacious Technicolor fantasy, WWII airman David Niven finds himself summoned to heaven after surviving a plane crash that should have killed him.

The Greatest Films of All Time 2012

Critics’ poll 90th

Directors’ poll 322nd

18 critics voted for this film

2 directors voted for this film

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