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It's the kind of comic allegory about war that depends on muddleheadedness in order to make much sense, but if you're feeling muddleheaded, you might find yourself charmed and enchanted by the conceit.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
King of Hearts
De Broca's Crowning Touch!
1966 · 1h 42m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, War
Directed by
Philippe de Broca
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Philippe de Broca Director
- 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
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The most cloying of cult films.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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