Adventure Comedy War
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.
Directed by
Marcel Camus
Written by
Marcel Jullian
Stephen Yardley
Bobby
Jacques Marbeuf
German non-commissioned officer
Annabel Leventon
Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
Pino Caruso
Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
Peter Myers
Colonel in the R.A.F.
Terry-Thomas
Commander Perry of British HQ
Michel Robin
Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel
Bourvil
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Peter McEnery
Jeff, the downed British airman
Jess Hahn
British colonel
Jean Poiret
Armand, resistance leader and double agent
Fernand Guiot
German corporal of 'Totor'
Jacques Balutin
Resistant gendarme
Norman Mitchell
Bobby
Jackie Sardou
Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter
Maurice Auzel
British soldier (uncredited)
Guy Delorme
German sailor
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
Sophie Desmarets
Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon
Patrick Préjean
Officer of the British HQ
Rudy Lenoir
German non-commissioned officer
Billy Kearns
Training camp commander
Georges Staquet
Hippolyte, leader of the resistance
Gerald Campion
Clergyman
William Mervyn
Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father
Sara Franchetti
Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
Roger Trapp
Tramp in prison
Frank Williams
Clergyman
Jacques Préboist
Ernest
Roger Lumont
French chef in London
Michel Berreur
Roland Lesaffre
Fake resistance fighter full of tics
Jean-Pierre Zola
Colonel Muller
Antoine Baud
Feldgendarme
John Eppler
Erwin Rommel
Yvon Lec
Gédéon Charlus
Robert Le Béal
Officer of the British HQ
Rico López
Albert
Jean Rupert
British HQ order
Pierre Decazes
SS soldier
Marcel Gassouk
German corporal
Paul Savatier
Prison guard
Roger Guillo
Prunier, cook in London
René Rall
Gestapo policeman
Janine Dill
Passerby
Anthony Stuart
Officer of the British HQ
Jean Moulard
Gestapo policeman
Roger Mailles
Gendarme
Gilbert Roimarmier
German non-commissioned officer
Guy Allombert
German officer
Bill Horsley
R.A.F. orderly
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