Synopsis
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
357 audience votes
Key crew
- Gérard OuryDirector
- Vladimir CosmaOriginal Music Composer
- Gérard OuryWriter
- Danièle ThompsonWriter
Cast
- Jean-Paul BelmondoJo Cavalier
- Marie-France PisierGaby Delcourt
- Rachid FerracheSimon Rosenblum
- Frank HoffmannGunther von Beckman
- Günter MeisnerAdolf Hitler / Angela Hitler
- Benno SterzenbachMajor Aschbach, Gestapo officer
- Yves PignotLucien
- Florent PagnyBoxer
- Sonja TuchmannSarah Rosenblum
- Stéphane FerraraMicholo, boxer
- Jean-Roger MiloEmile
- Maurice AuzelBoxing trainer
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