A Matter of Life and Death

Finding optimism and humanism in the wreckage of World War II, Powell and Pressburger's endlessly inventive and beautiful masterpiece travels through space and time, across the earth and the skies, following a love that knows no boundaries.

Synopsis

British air force pilot Peter Carter returns to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he abandons the plane and crashes into the ocean, he communicates with June, an Allied radio operator. Peter survives, finds June and they fall in love. The problem? A messenger of the gods comes to Earth to take Peter to heaven - as he accidentally survived the afterlife!