Weekend at Dunkirk

Week-end à Zuydcoote redirects here. For the novel see Week-end at Zuydcoote

Weekend at Dunkirk

Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Produced by	Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim
Written by	François Boyer Robert Merle
Starring	Jean-Paul Belmondo
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Edited by	Claude Durand
Release dates	1964 (1964)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	France Italy
Language	French
Box office	3,154,140 admissions (France)^[1]

Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) is a 1964 drama 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 World War II, it follows Julien Maillat, a French soldier who tries to join the English Army on the Royal Navy flotilla to England by boat. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French partners are hard pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.

Selected cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Julien Maillat
Catherine Spaak as Jeanne
Jean-Pierre Marielle as Pierson
Pierre Vernier as undertaker

Reception

The film was the ninth most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.^[3]

References

↑ Box office information for film at Box Office Story
↑ Fremont-Smith, Eliot. "New York Times: Weekend à Zuydcoote". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
↑ "1964 French box office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

External links

Week-end à Zuydcoote at the Internet Movie Database
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.

Films directed by Henri Verneuil

Forbidden Fruit (1952)
The Most Wanted Man (1953)
The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
The Lovers of Lisbon (1955)
Maxime (1958)
The Cow and I (1959)
The President (1961)
The Lions Are Loose (1961)
A Monkey in Winter (1962)
Any Number Can Win (1963)
Greed in the Sun (1964)
Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
The 25th Hour (1967)
Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
The Burglars (1971)
Night Flight from Moscow (1973)
The Night Caller (1975)
Body of My Enemy (1976)
I as in Icarus (1979)
A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)
Les Morfalous (1984)
Mother (1991)
588 rue paradis (1992)

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