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 Cast

Alan BatesCharles Plumpick

Geneviève BujoldCoquelicot

Pierre BrasseurGeneral Géranium

Michel SerraultMonsieur Marcel

Jean-Claude BrialyDuke of Clover

Adolfo CeliSchottischer Colonel

Micheline PresleMadame Eva aka Madame Eglantine

Philippe de BrocaAdolf Hitler