During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops â and the consequences of their own blunders.
Augustin Bouvet, house painter
Bourvil
Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera
Louis de FunĂšs
Squadron Leader Sir Reginald Brook, Royal Air Force
Terry-Thomas
Peter Cunningham
Claudio Brook
Aircraftman Alan MacIntosh, Royal Air Force
Mike Marshall
Juliette
Marie Dubois
Juliette's grandfather, owner of the Guignol theater
Pierre Bertin
Sister Marie-Odile
Andréa Parisy
Mother Superior of the Hospices de Beaune
Mary Marquet
Madame Germaine
Colette Brosset
Major Achbach
Benno Sterzenbach
Keeper of the Vincennes zoo with the Occitan accent
Henri GĂ©nĂšs
Fisherman in the boat
Paul Préboist
Lieutenant Sturmer
Sieghardt Rupp
The talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra
Guy Grosso
Cross-eyed German machine gunner
Michel Modo
German soldier on patrol
Rudy Lenoir
MéphistophélÚs from Faust at the Paris Opera
Jacques Bodoin
German corporal
Reinhard Kolldehoff
German officer of the dining car
Helmuth Schneider
Otto Weber, elegant SS gruppenfĂŒhrer
Hans Meyer
Old lady in Juliette's building
Mag-Avril
Resistance fighter, stagehand at the Paris Opera
Gabriel Gobin
Mustachioed man at the Turkish Baths
Paul Mercey
Peter's table neighbor in the dining car
Pierre Roussel
Plombin
Pierre Bastien
German general celebrating his birthday at âLâHĂŽtel du Globeâ
Peter Jacob
Lucien
Noël Darzal
BĂ©bert
Jacques Sablon
Talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
Jean Droze
Nun at the Hospices de Beaune (uncredited)
Catherine Marshall
Patrick, mechanic (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Posier
Parisian prostitute (uncredited)
Alice Field
Gestapo policeman at Augustin's house (uncredited)
Georges Atlas
German biker receiving a pumpkin (uncredited)
RĂ©my Julienne
Marguerite from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Anne Berger
Turkish bths employee / German officer (uncredited)
Guy Bonnafoux
Railway postal worker at the station (uncredited)
Clément Michu
German Colonel (uncredited)
Konrad von Bork
German soldier (uncredited)
Jerry Brouer
German sentry knocked out (uncredited)
Percival Russel
Harry, gunner, Royal Air Force (uncredited)
George Birt
John, bomber, Royal Air Force (unaccredited)
Nicolas Bang
German soldier (uncredited)
Raymond Pierson
Station employee (uncredited)
Christian Brocard
The first boy (unaccredited)
Sacha Tarride
Barbot (uncredited)
Lionel Vitrant
Dick (uncredited)
Anthony Stuart
German officer (uncredited)
Claude Salez
German colonel (uncredited)
Fred Fischer
Extra at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Ădouard Pignon
German soldier (uncredited)
Jean Minisini
Actor from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Joachim Westhoff
German non-commissioned officer (uncredited)
Tony Rödel
German colonel (uncredited)
Georges-Fréderic Dehlen
The fat guy (uncredited)
Guy Fox
Guide in Chaillot (deleted scene) (uncredited)
Jean Landret
Ludwig (uncredited)
Charly Constant
German aide-de-camp (uncredited)
Rolph Spath
Harpist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
GĂ©rard Martin
Extra (uncredited)
DaniĂšle Thompson
German Commander (uncredited)
Georges Dehneli
Pianist (uncredited)
Raoul Gola
First German in the hammam (uncredited)
Horst Miessner
Second German in the hammam (uncredited)
Jean-François Masson
Non-commissioned officer, clerk at the Kommandantur (uncredited)
Bernard Mermod
ilot of the German observation plane that follows the gliders (uncredited)
Gary Ramm
Second fisherman in the boat (uncredited)
Claude Rouillard
SS chief in Paris (uncredited)
Georges Ruseckis
Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
Joachim Weshoff