Atlantic Wall

  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • War
10/14/1970
107

Storyline

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.

Director:
Marcel Camus
Writer:
Marcel Jullian
    • world war ii
    • normandy, france
    • invasion of normandy
    • french
    • comedy

    Cast

    • Bourvil
      Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
    • Sophie Desmarets
      Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon
    • Peter McEnery
      Jeff, the downed British airman
    • Sara Franchetti
      Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
    • Jean Poiret
      Armand, resistance leader and double agent
    • Reinhard Kolldehoff
      Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
    • Pino Caruso
      Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
    • Terry-Thomas
      Commander Perry of British HQ
    • Roland Lesaffre
      Fake resistance fighter full of tics
    • Jacques Balutin
      Resistant gendarme
    • Robert Le Béal
      Officer of the British HQ
    • Jacques Préboist
      Ernest
    • Jess Hahn
      British colonel
    • Guy Delorme
      German sailor
    • Jackie Sardou
      Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter
    • Frank Williams
      Clergyman

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