Weekend at Dunkirk

Weekend at Dunkirk
Weekend at Dunkirk
Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Written by	François Boyer; Robert Merle
Produced by	Raymond Hakim; Robert Hakim
Starring	Jean-Paul Belmondo
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Edited by	Claude Durand
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production; companies	Paris Film Productions; Interopa Film
Distributed by	Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date	18 December 1964;
Running time	119 minutes
Countries	France; Italy
Language	French
Box office	3,154,140 admissions (France)

Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) is a 1964 French-Italian drama war 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.

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 Britain. 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 British sergeant controlling the lines on the beach
Kenneth Haigh : John Atkins
Marie Dubois : Hélène, the French wife of Atkins
Nigel Stock as the British 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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[1] Box office information for film at Box Office Story

[NY_Times-2] 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.

[3] "1964 French box office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

[4] Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 325.

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