DirectorMarcel Camus
Release Year1970
Main Cast
BourvilLéon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Sophie DesmaretsMaria Duchemin, sister of Léon
Peter McEneryJeff, the downed British airman
Sara FranchettiJuliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
Jean PoiretArmand, resistance leader and double agent
Reinhard KolldehoffLieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'Synopsis
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.
