Overview
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in France
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Music
Music by Claude Bolling
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Marcel JullianWriter
- Original title
- Le Mur de l’Atlantique
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 14, 1970
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France, Italy
Cast
BourvilLéon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Sophie DesmaretsMaria Duchemin, sister of Léon
Peter McEneryJeff, the downed British airman
Sara FranchettiJuliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
Jean PoiretArmand, resistance leader and double agent
Reinhard KolldehoffLieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
Pino CarusoLieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
Terry-ThomasCommander Perry of British HQ
Roland LesaffreFake resistance fighter full of tics
Jacques BalutinResistant gendarme
Robert Le BéalOfficer of the British HQ
Jacques PréboistErnest
Jess HahnBritish colonel
Guy DelormeGerman sailor
Jackie SardouAngèle Charlus, wife of the painter
Frank WilliamsClergyman- Jean-Pierre ZolaColonel Muller
Georges StaquetHippolyte, leader of the resistance
John EpplerErwin Rommel
Patrick PréjeanOfficer of the British HQ
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