King of Hearts

Dec 21, 1966

1h 42m

★ 6.9

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Overview

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

War

Production Companies

Fildebroc

Les Productions Artistes Associés

Compagnia Cinematografica Montoro

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Cast

Charles Plumpick

Alan Bates

Coquelicot

Geneviève Bujold

General Géranium

Pierre Brasseur

Monsieur Marcel

Michel Serrault

Duke of Clover

Jean-Claude Brialy

Schottischer Colonel

Adolfo Celi

Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine

Micheline Presle

Adolf Hitler

Philippe de Broca

Duchess

Françoise Christophe

Monseigneur Marguerite

Julien Guiomar

Alberic

Pierre Palau

Mac Fish

Jacques Balutin

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