Weekend at Dunkirk
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Weekend at Dunkirk (Template:Langx) is a 1964 French-Italian drama war film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.[1] It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à 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 Britain. 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
- François Périer as Alexandre
- Pierre Mondy as Dhéry
- Pierre Vernier as undertaker
- Paul Préboist as a soldier
- Ronald Howard as captain Robinson
- Eric Sinclair : le capitaine Clark
- Donald O'Brien as the British sergeant controlling the lines on the beach
- Kenneth Haigh : John Atkins
- Marie Dubois : Hélène, the French wife of Atkins
- Nigel Stock as the British 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.[2]
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.[3]
References
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- 1964 films
- 1960s French-language films
- 1960s war drama films
- Films directed by Henri Verneuil
- Films set in 1940
- Films set in Dunkirk
- Dunkirk evacuation films
- Films set on beaches
- French war drama films
- French World War II films
- Western Front of World War II films
- Films based on French novels
- 1964 drama films
- 1960s French films
- Italian war drama films
- Italian World War II films
- French-language Italian films