
Atlantic Wall
Adventure · Comedy · War
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.
Top Cast


Bourvil
Bourvil
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Bourvil
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur


Sophie Desmarets
Sophie Desmarets
Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon
Sophie Desmarets
Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon


Peter McEnery
Peter McEnery
Jeff, the downed British airman
Peter McEnery
Jeff, the downed British airman


Sara Franchetti
Sara Franchetti
Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
Sara Franchetti
Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon


Jean Poiret
Jean Poiret
Armand, resistance leader and double agent
Jean Poiret
Armand, resistance leader and double agent


Reinhard Kolldehoff
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'


Pino Caruso
Pino Caruso
Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
Pino Caruso
Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver


Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas
Commander Perry of British HQ
Terry-Thomas
Commander Perry of British HQ


Roland Lesaffre
Roland Lesaffre
Fake resistance fighter full of tics
Roland Lesaffre
Fake resistance fighter full of tics


Jacques Balutin
Jacques Balutin
Resistant gendarme
Jacques Balutin
Resistant gendarme
Similar Movies

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.

After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook.

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.




















