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.
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Alan Bates as Charles Plumpick
Geneviève Bujold as Coquelicot
Pierre Brasseur as Le Général Géranium
Michel Serrault as Monsieur Marcel
Jean-Claude Brialy as Duc de Trèfle
Adolfo Celi as schottischer Colonel
Micheline Presle as Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine
Philippe de Broca as Adolf Hitler
Françoise Christophe as La Duchesse
Julien Guiomar as Monseigneur Marguerite
Pierre Palau as Alberic
Jacques Balutin as Mac Fish
Pier Paolo Capponi as Un officier anglais
Madeleine Clervanne as Brunehaut
Marc Dudicourt as Le Lieutenant Hamburger
Georges Adet as L'aliéné-docteur (uncredited)
Jackie Blanchot as Le Gabalou (uncredited)
Robert Blome as Un aliéné (uncredited)
Jean-Marie Bon as Un aliéné (uncredited)
Daniel Boulanger as Le Colonel Helmut von Krack (uncredited)
Philippe Bruneau as Un académicien (uncredited)
Paul Faivre as Le coiffeur (uncredited)
Georges Guéret as Le soldat avec Mac Fish (uncredited)
Louis Jojot as Gontrand (uncredited)
Jacques Mauclair as Le maire (uncredited)
Daniel Prévost as Le Général Vallemat (uncredited)
Yves Robert as Le général Baderna (uncredited)
Sabine Sun as Mimi la Rose (uncredited)
Sylvain as Le suisse (uncredited)
Eric Vasberg as Un soldat avec Mac Fish (uncredited)