During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Bourvil
Augustin Bouvet, house painter
Louis de Funès
Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera
Terry-Thomas
Squadron Leader Sir Reginald Brook, Royal Air Force
Claudio Brook
Peter Cunningham
Mike Marshall
Aircraftman Alan MacIntosh, Royal Air Force
Marie Dubois
Juliette
Pierre Bertin
Juliette's grandfather, owner of the Guignol theater
Andréa Parisy
Sister Marie-Odile
Mary Marquet
Mother Superior of the Hospices de Beaune
Colette Brosset
Madame Germaine
Benno Sterzenbach
Major Achbach
Henri Génès
Keeper of the Vincennes zoo with the Occitan accent
Paul Préboist
Fisherman in the boat
Sieghardt Rupp
Lieutenant Sturmer
Guy Grosso
The talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra
Michel Modo
Cross-eyed German machine gunner
Rudy Lenoir
German soldier on patrol
Jacques Bodoin
Méphistophélès from Faust at the Paris Opera
Reinhard Kolldehoff
German corporal
Helmuth Schneider
German officer of the dining car
Hans Meyer
Otto Weber, elegant SS gruppenführer
Mag-Avril
Old lady in Juliette's building
Gabriel Gobin
Resistance fighter, stagehand at the Paris Opera
Paul Mercey
Mustachioed man at the Turkish Baths
Pierre Roussel
Peter's table neighbor in the dining car
Pierre Bastien
Plombin
Peter Jacob
German general celebrating his birthday at “L’Hôtel du Globe”
Noël Darzal
Lucien
Jacques Sablon
Bébert
Jean Droze
Talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
Catherine Marshall
Nun at the Hospices de Beaune (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Posier
Patrick, mechanic (uncredited)
Alice Field
Parisian prostitute (uncredited)
Georges Atlas
Gestapo policeman at Augustin's house (uncredited)
Rémy Julienne
German biker receiving a pumpkin (uncredited)
Anne Berger
Marguerite from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Guy Bonnafoux
Turkish bths employee / German officer (uncredited)
Clément Michu
Railway postal worker at the station (uncredited)
Konrad von Bork
German Colonel (uncredited)
Jerry Brouer
German soldier (uncredited)
Percival Russel
German sentry knocked out (uncredited)
George Birt
Harry, gunner, Royal Air Force (uncredited)
Nicolas Bang
John, bomber, Royal Air Force (unaccredited)
Raymond Pierson
German soldier (uncredited)
Christian Brocard
Station employee (uncredited)
Sacha Tarride
The first boy (unaccredited)
Lionel Vitrant
Barbot (uncredited)
Anthony Stuart
Dick (uncredited)
Claude Salez
German officer (uncredited)
Fred Fischer
German colonel (uncredited)
Édouard Pignon
Extra at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Jean Minisini
German soldier (uncredited)
Joachim Westhoff
Actor from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Tony Rödel
German non-commissioned officer (uncredited)
Georges-Fréderic Dehlen
German colonel (uncredited)
Guy Fox
The fat guy (uncredited)
Jean Landret
Guide in Chaillot (deleted scene) (uncredited)
Charly Constant
Ludwig (uncredited)
Rolph Spath
German aide-de-camp (uncredited)
Gérard Martin
Harpist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
Danièle Thompson
Extra (uncredited)
Georges Dehneli
German Commander (uncredited)
Raoul Gola
Pianist (uncredited)
Horst Miessner
First German in the hammam (uncredited)
Jean-François Masson
Second German in the hammam (uncredited)
Bernard Mermod
Non-commissioned officer, clerk at the Kommandantur (uncredited)
Gary Ramm
ilot of the German observation plane that follows the gliders (uncredited)
Claude Rouillard
Second fisherman in the boat (uncredited)
Georges Ruseckis
SS chief in Paris (uncredited)
Joachim Weshoff
Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
The Restaurant
The Sucker
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Fantomas
The Wing or the Thigh?
One Week Friends
Delusions of Grandeur
Fantomas Unleashed
The Gendarme in New York
Oscar
The Cabbage Soup
Hibernatus
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
The Exchange Student
War of the Buttons
The Miser
The Gendarme Gets Married
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Great Spy Chase
Rommel, chef de guerre
The Tuskegee Airmen
Too Late the Hero
The Terror of Tiny Town
Roberta
The Bells Go Down
Run Boy Run
Life of Brian
Downfall
The Last Samurai
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
The Mad Maestro
Saints and Soldiers
The Aristocats
The Caine Mutiny
Shall We Kiss?
East Is East
Hart's War
Hack!
Enigma
opera
paris, france
general
world war ii
conductor
bomber
paratroops
french resistance
british soldier
nazi occupation
house painter
1940s
occupied france (1940-44)
royal air force
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