Ace of Aces

Overview

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.

Directed by Gérard Oury

Top cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jo Cavalier

Marie-France Pisier

Gaby Delcourt

Rachid Ferrache

Simon Rosenblum

Frank Hoffmann

Gunther von Beckman

Günter Meisner

Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler

Benno Sterzenbach

Major Aschbach, Gestapo officer

Yves Pignot

Lucien

Florent Pagny

Boxer

Sonja Tuchmann

Sarah Rosenblum

Stéphane Ferrara

Micholo, boxer

Jean-Roger Milo

Emile

Maurice Auzel

Boxing trainer

Michael Gahr

Brückner, Hitler's adjutant

Martin Umbach

Lazare Rosenblum

Claus Fuchs

Dieter

Christoph Lindert

Mr. Hammel

Hans Wyprächtiger

Oberleutnant 'Grandpa' Rosenblum

Peter Bonke

G

Gerd Roman Frosch

David Gabison

Details