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Weekend at Dunkirk
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Wikipedia article
'Weekend at Dunkirk' is a 1964 war drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel 'Week-end at Zuydcoote' (French: 'Week-end Zuydcoote') by Robert Merle.
Plot
Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French Army sergeant who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy's boat flotilla to England. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French squad-mates and colleagues are hard-pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.
Selected cast
* Jean-Paul Belmondo as Staff sergeant French Army Julien Maillat
* Catherine Spaak as Jeanne
* Jean-Pierre Marielle as a French military chaplain friend of Maillat
* Franois Prier as Alexandre
* Pierre Mondy as Dhry
* Pierre Vernier as undertaker
* Paul Prboist as a soldier
* Ronald Howard as captain Robinson
* Eric Sinclair : le capitaine Clark
* Donald O'Brien as the English sergeant controlling the lines on the beach
* Kenneth Haigh : John Atkins
* Marie Dubois : Hlne, the French wife of Atkins
* Nigel Stock as the English sergeant carrying rocking horse and burned during a German attack
* Christian Barbier : Paul
Reception
The film was the ninth most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.
According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,700,000 in rentals to break even and made $1,755,000, meaning it made a profit.
References
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