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

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