Atlantic Wall (1970)
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.
- Released
- 1970-10-14
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, War
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Marcel Camus
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 116 votes
Cast
- Bourvil as Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
- Sophie Desmarets as Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon
- Peter McEnery as Jeff, the downed British airman
- Sara Franchetti as Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
- Jean Poiret as Armand, resistance leader and double agent
- Reinhard Kolldehoff as Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
- Pino Caruso as Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
- Terry-Thomas as Commander Perry of British HQ
- Roland Lesaffre as Fake resistance fighter full of tics
- Jacques Balutin as Resistant gendarme
- Robert Le Béal as Officer of the British HQ
- Jacques Préboist as Ernest
More like this
- Max & Leon (2016)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
- Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
- Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
- OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
- Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
- Sisters in Arms (2019)
- Sahara (1995)
- You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)