Film
Women and War
- Director
- Georges Lautner
- Year
- 1961
In 1944, in a small village in Calvados, just as the Allies landed, a British plane was shot down. The wounded pilot seeks help. All the villagers, who speak only of resistance, refuse to help, for fear of reprisals. Only the mayor, Dr. Leproux, takes him in and nurses him back to health, then entrusts him to the Resistance. But the Germans get wind of the story and arrest Leproux. He is saved by Major Frantz. But the budding friendship between these two men "doesn't stop the drums", and the war is on.
Top cast
Bernard Blier
le docteur Leproux, maire du village
Lucile Saint-Simon
Catherine Leproux, la fille du maire
Lutz Gabor
le major allemand
Daniel Sorano
le Toulousain, un résistant
Anne Doat
Dany, une résistante
Béatrice Bretty
Germaine, la bonne du maire
Henri Virlogeux
le garde-champêtre
Paulette Dubost
la veuve
Catherine Le Couey
Mme Gaspard, l'épicière
Jacques Marin
M. Gaspard, l'épicier
Jacques Chabassol
un résistant
Guy Dakar
un officier de la 2e D.B
Christian Melsen
un allemand
Jean Filliez
un allemand
Jean Sylvère
le blessé mécontent
Michel Garland
l'aviateur anglais
Pierre Barouh
le résistant poète
Directed by
Georges Lautner
Written by
Georges Lautner, Michel Prentout, Pierre Laroche