• Source: Atlantic Wall (film)

      • 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.


      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 Le Gendarme en balade.


      References




      External links


      Atlantic Wall at IMDb

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