Atlantic Wall (1970)
Original title: Le Mur de l’Atlantique
Atlantic Wall is a 1970 French-language adventure movie directed by Marcel Camus, with a running time of 1h 47m. It stars Bourvil, Sophie Desmarets and Peter McEnery.
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
- 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