

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 – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Augustin Bouvet, house painter

Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera

Squadron Leader Sir Reginald Brook, Royal Air Force

Peter Cunningham

Aircraftman Alan MacIntosh, Royal Air Force

Juliette

Juliette's grandfather, owner of the Guignol theater

Sister Marie-Odile

Mother Superior of the Hospices de Beaune

Madame Germaine

Major Achbach

Keeper of the Vincennes zoo with the Occitan accent

Fisherman in the boat

Lieutenant Sturmer

The talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra

Cross-eyed German machine gunner

German soldier on patrol

Méphistophélès from Faust at the Paris Opera

German corporal

German officer of the dining car

Otto Weber, elegant SS gruppenführer

Old lady in Juliette's building

Resistance fighter, stagehand at the Paris Opera

Mustachioed man at the Turkish Baths

Peter's table neighbor in the dining car
Plombin
German general celebrating his birthday at “L’Hôtel du Globe”
Lucien
Bébert

Talkative bassoonist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)
Nun at the Hospices de Beaune (uncredited)

Patrick, mechanic (uncredited)

Parisian prostitute (uncredited)

Gestapo policeman at Augustin's house (uncredited)

German biker receiving a pumpkin (uncredited)

Marguerite from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)

Turkish bths employee / German officer (uncredited)

Railway postal worker at the station (uncredited)
German Colonel (uncredited)

German soldier (uncredited)
German sentry knocked out (uncredited)

Harry, gunner, Royal Air Force (uncredited)
John, bomber, Royal Air Force (unaccredited)

German soldier (uncredited)

Station employee (uncredited)

The first boy (unaccredited)

Barbot (uncredited)

Dick (uncredited)
German officer (uncredited)
German colonel (uncredited)
Extra at the Paris Opera (uncredited)
German soldier (uncredited)
Actor from Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)

German non-commissioned officer (uncredited)
German colonel (uncredited)
The fat guy (uncredited)
Guide in Chaillot (deleted scene) (uncredited)
Ludwig (uncredited)
German aide-de-camp (uncredited)
Harpist of the Paris Opera orchestra (uncredited)

Extra (uncredited)
German Commander (uncredited)
Pianist (uncredited)
First German in the hammam (uncredited)
Second German in the hammam (uncredited)
Non-commissioned officer, clerk at the Kommandantur (uncredited)
ilot of the German observation plane that follows the gliders (uncredited)
Second fisherman in the boat (uncredited)
SS chief in Paris (uncredited)
Faust at the Paris Opera (uncredited)

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