Atlantic Wall

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.

Directed by Marcel Camus

Top 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

Jean-Pierre Zola

Colonel Muller

Georges Staquet

Hippolyte, leader of the resistance

John Eppler

Erwin Rommel

Patrick Préjean

Officer of the British HQ

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