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1944. LĂ©on Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, RĂ©sistance et black marketeers. LĂ©on unwillingly joins the RĂ©sistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Bourvil
LĂ©on Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Sophie Desmarets
Maria Duchemin, sister of LĂ©on
Peter McEnery
Jeff, the downed British airman
Sara Franchetti
Juliette Duchemin, daughter of LĂ©on
Jean Poiret
Armand, resistance leader and double agent
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
Pino Caruso
Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
Terry-Thomas
Commander Perry of British HQ
Roland Lesaffre
Fake resistance fighter full of tics
Jacques Balutin
Resistant gendarme
Robert Le BĂ©al
Officer of the British HQ
Jacques Préboist
Ernest
Jess Hahn
British colonel
Guy Delorme
German sailor
Jackie Sardou
Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter
Frank Williams
Clergyman
Jean-Pierre Zola
Colonel Muller
Georges Staquet
Hippolyte, leader of the resistance
John Eppler
Erwin Rommel
Patrick Préjean
Officer of the British HQ
Annabel Leventon
Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
Antoine Baud
Feldgendarme
Pierre Decazes
SS soldier
Roger Lumont
French chef in London
Michel Robin
Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel
Rudy Lenoir
German non-commissioned officer
Jean Rupert
British HQ order
Fernand Guiot
German corporal of 'Totor'
William Mervyn
Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father
Billy Kearns
Training camp commander
Marcel Gassouk
German corporal
Gerald Campion
Clergyman
Peter Myers
Colonel in the R.A.F.
Roger Guillo
Prunier, cook in London
Paul Savatier
Prison guard
René Rall
Gestapo policeman
Roger Trapp
Tramp in prison
Yvon Lec
Gédéon Charlus
Jacques Marbeuf
German non-commissioned officer
Rico LĂłpez
Albert
Norman Mitchell
Bobby
Stephen Yardley
Bobby
Maurice Auzel
British soldier (uncredited)