King of Hearts (1966)

6.9/10 102 min Comedy Drama War

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.

Cast

Alan Bates

Charles Plumpick

Geneviève Bujold

Coquelicot

Pierre Brasseur

General Géranium

Michel Serrault

Monsieur Marcel

Jean-Claude Brialy

Duke of Clover

Adolfo Celi

Schottischer Colonel

Micheline Presle

Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine

Philippe de Broca

Adolf Hitler

Françoise Christophe

Duchess

Julien Guiomar

Monseigneur Marguerite

Pierre Palau

Alberic

Jacques Balutin

Mac Fish

Pier Paolo Capponi

English officer

Madeleine Clervanne

Brunehaut

Marc Dudicourt

Lieutenant Hamburger

Georges Adet

Madman-doctor (uncredited

Jackie Blanchot

'Le Gabalou' (uncredited)

Robert Blome

Madman (uncredited)

Jean-Marie Bon

Madman (uncredited)

Daniel Boulanger

Colonel Helmut von Krack (uncredited)

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