Le Mur de l’Atlantique

6.2

107 minutes

10/14/1970

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.

Cast List

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
Jess Hahn
as British colonel
Guy Delorme
as German sailor
Jackie Sardou
as Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter
Frank Williams
as Clergyman
Jean-Pierre Zola
as Colonel Muller
Georges Staquet
as Hippolyte, leader of the resistance
John Eppler
as Erwin Rommel
Patrick Préjean
as Officer of the British HQ
Annabel Leventon
as Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
Janine Dill
as Passerby
Antoine Baud
as Feldgendarme
Anthony Stuart
as Officer of the British HQ
Pierre Decazes
as SS soldier
Roger Lumont
as French chef in London
Michel Robin
as Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel
Rudy Lenoir
as German non-commissioned officer
Jean Rupert
as British HQ order
Fernand Guiot
as German corporal of 'Totor'
William Mervyn
as Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father
Billy Kearns
as Training camp commander
Marcel Gassouk
as German corporal
Jean Moulard
as Gestapo policeman
Gerald Campion
as Clergyman
Peter Myers
as Colonel in the R.A.F.
Roger Guillo
as Prunier, cook in London
Paul Savatier
as Prison guard
Roger Mailles
as Gendarme
Bernard Saint-Jacques
as SS soldier
Gilbert Roimarmier
as German non-commissioned officer
René Rall
as Gestapo policeman
Roger Trapp
as Tramp in prison
Guy Allombert
as German officer
Bill Horsley
as R.A.F. orderly
Yvon Lec
as Gédéon Charlus
Jacques Marbeuf
as German non-commissioned officer
Rico López
as Albert
Norman Mitchell
as Bobby
Stephen Yardley
as Bobby
Maurice Auzel
as British soldier (uncredited)