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Le Mur de l'Atlantique
1970 War / Comedy
Review
After the staggering success of the 1966 film La Grande Vadrouille, the production
team of Le Mur de l’Atlantique were clearly hoping to repeat the success with the
winning formula of Bourvil and an outlandish comic farce set at the time of the Nazi occupation.
Unfortunately, despite some memorable comic moments, this film is little more than a pale
imitation of that earlier film. Needless to say the film was nowhere near as successful
at the box office.
On a sad note, this was
the very last project on which the great comic actor Bourvil worked. Very ill when
he was making the film, he died a short while after completing the shooting. That
fact alone casts a veil of sadness over the film and the comedy somehow feels strangely
inappropriate.
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Director:
Marcel Camus
Starring: Bourvil, Jean Poiret, Sophie Desmarets, Peter McEnery, Terry-Thomas Synopsis
In 1944, Léon Duchemin , a restaurant owner living in Normandy, leads a peaceful
life. His restaurant is frequented by German officers, black marketers and members
of the French Resistance, but his clients’ exploits hold no interest for him at all.
That is until an English airman falls out of the sky and lands in his daughter’s bed.
From that day, his life takes an unexpected turn and he ends up as an unwitting agent
of the Resistance…
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