Genres
Production Companies
Rialto Films
Gaumont International
Cerito Films
Gaumont
Ace of Aces (L'As des as)
Overview
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Key Crew
Director of Photography: Xaver Schwarzenberger
Director: Gérard Oury
Writer: Gérard Oury, Danièle Thompson
Producer: Alain Poiré, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Horst Wendlandt
Top Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jo Cavalier
Marie-France Pisier
Gaby Delcourt
Rachid Ferrache
Simon Rosenblum
Frank Hoffmann
Gunther von Beckman
Günter Meisner
Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler
Benno Sterzenbach
Major Aschbach, Gestapo officer
Yves Pignot
Lucien
Florent Pagny
Boxer
