So Little Time is a 1952 British World War II romantic drama film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Marius Goring, Maria Schell and Lucie Mannheim.

[citation needed] In occupied Belgium during World War II, the chateau where Nicole de Malvines lives with her mother is partially requisitioned for use by German forces.

Having lost several male members of her family in the war, the proud and outspoken Nicole holds the Germans in contempt and has no hesitation in making her feelings clear to him.

Matters become more complicated when members of the Belgian Resistance, led by her cousin Phillipe de Malvines, target Nicole to steal documentation from von Hohensee to pass over to them, making clear that non-cooperation is not an option.

The aria Voi che sapete che cosa è amor or Sagt holde Frauen die ihr sie kennt from the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart also features prominently in the film, being sung in German, both by von Hohensee as he accompanies himself on piano, and in the performance which von Hohensee takes Nicole to see in Brussels.

Miss Schell is adorable, with her heart-shaped face and wings of dark hair; her quaint way of sitting, looking down and sideways with the head a little tilted, her trick of speaking softly on the middle of an outgoing breath.

I thought her very touching, and altogether sweet.” The review by Marjory Adam in The Boston Globe said: "So Little Time is sentimentally appealing but it has emotional heights as well.

Nicole's sacrifice to save her lover whom she has betrayed to her countrymen rises to almost unbearable intensity as the terrified girl runs sobbing to stop his car.

Miss Schell and Goring display sensitivity and skill in delineating the love which is so tender in a rough and wicked world of war and death.