Atlantic Wall (film)

Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Wall
Directed by	Marcel Camus
Written by	Marcel Jullian; Marcel Camus
Story by	Colonel Rémy
Produced by	Georges de Beauregard
Starring	Bourvil ; Peter McEnery
Cinematography	Alain Levent
Music by	Claude Bolling
Release date	1970;
Language	French
Box office	4,770,962 admissions (France)

Atlantic Wall (French: Le Mur de l'Atlantique, Italian: Un elmetto pieno di... fifa) is a 1970 French-Italian war-comedy film written and directed by Marcel Camus and starring Bourvil and Peter McEnery. It was Bourvil's last film.^[2]^[3]

Plot

The story is set during the Second World War, under the occupation of France, and shortly before the Battle of Normandy. Léon Duchemin is a peaceful restaurateur whose wife left him twenty years earlier. He lived in the company of his eccentric sister Maria, and his young adult daughter Juliette. His clients represent the whole of society in the village, ranging from Rommel's driver, to resistance fighters and black market traffickers.

One evening, during an air raid, Jeff, a British aviator whose plane was shot down, almost falls into Juliette's room. The next day, Leon hangs out with Charlus, the craftsman responsible for repainting his storefront. Leon is misidentified as the painter in question and is taken to the Kommandantur, where they have a similar job to offer him. Leon inadvertently carries a secret plan concerning the fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Having made the acquaintance of Jeff who understands the interest of the discovery made by Leon, the latter is therefore obliged to join the French Resistance. The resistance takes the two men to England. Leon then finds himself in a British army training camp, under the orders of Jeff himself. He does not yet know that his daughter Juliette is pregnant and that the aviator will become his son-in-law.

Cast

Bourvil as Léon Duchemin
Peter McEnery as Jeff
Sophie Desmarets as Maria Duchemin
Jean Poiret as Armand
Reinhardt Kolldehoff as Lt. Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka Totor
Sara Franchetti as Juliette Duchemin
Pino Caruso as Lt. Friedrich
Terry-Thomas as Comm. Perry
Jean-Pierre Zola as Colonel Muller
Georges Staquet as Hippolyte
Jacques Préboist as Ernest
Johannes Eppler as Erwin Rommel
Annabel Leventon as Sybil
Jackie Sardou as Angèle Charlus
William Mervyn as Jeff's Father
Jess Hahn as British Colonel
Patrick Préjean as British Officer
Michel Robin as The Shoemaker
Jacques Balutin as Gendarme
Norman Mitchell as First Cop
Stephen Yardley as Second Cop

Reception

The film was the second most popular film in France in 1970, after The Gendarme Takes Off.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "1970 Box Office in France". Box Office Story.
^ Philippe Crocq, Jean Mareska (2006). Bourvil: De rire et de tendresse. Privat, 2006. ISBN 2708950010.
^ Marc Lemonier (2005). Guide des lieux cultes du cinéma en France. Horay, 2005. ISBN 2705804218.

External links

Atlantic Wall at IMDb

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[office-1] "1970 Box Office in France". Box Office Story.

[2] Philippe Crocq, Jean Mareska (2006). Bourvil: De rire et de tendresse. Privat, 2006. ISBN 2708950010.

[3] Marc Lemonier (2005). Guide des lieux cultes du cinéma en France. Horay, 2005. ISBN 2705804218.

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