14 Nov 2005
The Somme
Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.
King of Hearts
De Broca's Crowning Touch!
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Top Billed Cast
Alan Bates Charles Plumpick
Geneviève Bujold Coquelicot
Pierre Brasseur General Géranium
Michel Serrault Monsieur Marcel
Jean-Claude Brialy Duke of Clover
Adolfo Celi Schottischer Colonel
Micheline Presle Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine
Françoise Christophe Duchess
Julien Guiomar Monseigneur Marguerite
Pierre Palau Alberic
Jacques Balutin Mac Fish
Pier Paolo Capponi English officer
Madeleine Clervanne Brunehaut
Marc Dudicourt Lieutenant Hamburger
Georges Adet Madman-doctor (uncredited
Jackie Blanchot 'Le Gabalou' (uncredited)
Robert Blome Madman (uncredited)
Jean-Marie Bon Madman (uncredited)
Philippe Bruneau Academician (uncredited)
Paul Faivre Hairdresser (uncredited)
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