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Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) is a 1964 war drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.[2] It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) by Robert Merle.
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| Directed by | Henri Verneuil |
| Written by | François Boyer Robert Merle |
| Produced by | Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim |
| Starring | Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| Edited by | Claude Durand |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
Release date |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 3,154,140 admissions (France)[1] |
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 England. 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 English sergeant controlling the lines on the beach
- Kenneth Haigh : John Atkins
- Marie Dubois : Hélène, the French wife of Atkins
- Nigel Stock as the English 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.[3]
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.[4]
References
- Box office information for film at Box Office Story
- Fremont-Smith, Eliot (2009). "New York Times: Weekend à Zuydcoote". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
- "1964 French box office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 325.
External links
- Week-end à Zuydcoote at IMDb
- Weekend at Dunkirk at Le Film Guide
- Kirkup, James (2 April 2004). "Obituaries: Robert Merle". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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На других языках
- [en] Weekend at Dunkirk
[ru] Уикенд на берегу океана
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