Comedy War
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Directed by
Gérard Oury
Written by
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Louis de Funès
Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera
Jerry Brouer
German soldier (uncredited)
Paul Préboist
Fisherman in the boat
Bourvil
Augustin Bouvet, house painter
Terry-Thomas
Squadron Leader Sir Reginald Brook, Royal Air Force
Marie Dubois
Juliette
Reinhard Kolldehoff
German corporal
Gérard Oury
Pierre Bertin
Juliette's grandfather, owner of the Guignol theater
Claudio Brook
Peter Cunningham
Mike Marshall
Aircraftman Alan MacIntosh, Royal Air Force
Michel Modo
Cross-eyed German machine gunner
Sieghardt Rupp
Lieutenant Sturmer
Henri Génès
Keeper of the Vincennes zoo with the Occitan accent
Mary Marquet
Mother Superior of the Hospices de Beaune
Hans Meyer
Otto Weber, elegant SS gruppenführer
Andréa Parisy
Sister Marie-Odile
Guy Grosso
The talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra
Jean-Pierre Posier
Patrick, mechanic (uncredited)
Gabriel Gobin
Resistance fighter, stagehand at the Paris Opera
Rudy Lenoir
German soldier on patrol
George Birt
Harry, gunner, Royal Air Force (uncredited)
Colette Brosset
Madame Germaine
Benno Sterzenbach
Major Achbach
Helmuth Schneider
German officer of the dining car
Lionel Vitrant
Barbot (uncredited)
Paul Mercey
Mustachioed man at the Turkish Baths
Jean Droze
Talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
Mag-Avril
Old lady in Juliette's building
Alice Field
Parisian prostitute (uncredited)
Clément Michu
Railway postal worker at the station (uncredited)
Jacques Bodoin
Méphistophélès from Faust at the Paris Opera
Georges Atlas
Gestapo policeman at Augustin's house (uncredited)
Christian Brocard
Station employee (uncredited)
Tony Rödel
German non-commissioned officer (uncredited)
Raymond Pierson
German soldier (uncredited)
Pierre Roussel
Peter's table neighbor in the dining car
Anne Berger
Marguerite from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Sacha Tarride
The first boy (unaccredited)
Pierre Bastien
Plombin
Peter Jacob
German general celebrating his birthday at “L’Hôtel du Globe”
Noël Darzal
Lucien
Jacques Sablon
Bébert
Catherine Marshall
Nun at the Hospices de Beaune (uncredited)
Guy Bonnafoux
Turkish bths employee / German officer (uncredited)
Konrad von Bork
German Colonel (uncredited)
Percival Russel
German sentry knocked out (uncredited)
Nicolas Bang
John, bomber, Royal Air Force (unaccredited)
Anthony Stuart
Dick (uncredited)
Claude Salez
German officer (uncredited)
Fred Fischer
German colonel (uncredited)
Édouard Pignon
Extra at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Jean Minisini
German soldier (uncredited)
Joachim Westhoff
Actor from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Georges-Fréderic Dehlen
German colonel (uncredited)
Guy Fox
The fat guy (uncredited)
Jean Landret
Guide in Chaillot (deleted scene) (uncredited)
Charly Constant
Ludwig (uncredited)
Rolph Spath
German aide-de-camp (uncredited)
Gérard Martin
Harpist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
Georges Dehneli
German Commander (uncredited)
Raoul Gola
Pianist (uncredited)
Horst Miessner
First German in the hammam (uncredited)
Bernard Mermod
Non-commissioned officer, clerk at the Kommandantur (uncredited)
Gary Ramm
ilot of the German observation plane that follows the gliders (uncredited)
Claude Rouillard
Second fisherman in the boat (uncredited)
Georges Ruseckis
SS chief in Paris (uncredited)
Joachim Weshoff
Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Robert Christidès
Gérard Streiff
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris

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