Atlantic Wall
Le Mur de l’Atlantique
Adventure
Comedy
War
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.
1970-10-14
fr
Cast
Director
Marcel Camus
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
Antoine Baud as Feldgendarme
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
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
René Rall as Gestapo policeman
Roger Trapp as Tramp in prison
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)