Martin Soldat (1966)
Directed by Michel Deville

Comedy
aka: Kiss Me General

Film Synopsis

France, 1944.  On the day of the Normandy landing, a two-bit actor named Martin is busy rehearsing his role as a German officer for a stage play.  The liberating American troops mistake him for a real German and he is handed over to the French.  Whilst employed as an orderly to a French general, Martin mislays his clothes and ends up having to borrow those of the general.  Kidnapped by German soldiers, Martin is privy to a dastardly plot to defeat the allies, masterminded by Hitler himself.  When he is subsequently rescued by the Americans, Martin is charged with a vital mission: to infiltrate the German camp and assassinate the Führer...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Michel Deville
  • Script: Nina Companéez, Michel Deville, Maurice Rheims
  • Music: Maurice Leroux
  • Cast: Robert Hirsch (Martin), Véronique Vendell (Zouzou), Walter Rilla (Général von Haffelrats), Anthony Sharp (Le major), Reinhard Kolldehoff (Le chef de la Gestapo), Paul-Emile Deiber (Le général de Lamarzelle), Georges Chamarat (Renard), Wolfgang Sauer (Wilderheim), Claude Bertrand (Galland), Marlène Jobert (La résistante), Louis Velle (Le colonel Dumesnil), Claude Vernier (Le Prussien), Carl Studer (Le capitaine Wallace), Jean Martin (Monnier), André Weber (Le résistant chauffeur), Katia Christine (L'Anglaise), Jacqueline Monsigny (Mme Dural), Hélène Dieudonné (Marie-Marguerite), Henri Labussière (L'aubergiste), Guy Saint-Jean (La sentinelle)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 91 min
  • Aka: Kiss Me General ; Soldier Martin

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