
Plot
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.
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Cast

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)