French Resistance meets American opportunists in a war where everyone's wearing a costume.
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
Acting
Philippe Noiret brings tragic gravitas to an impossible role.
Production
Tangier locations convincingly double for 1942 Algiers.
Director
Alexandre Arcady
Philippe Noiret
Étienne Labrouche
Roger Hanin
Léon Castelli
Richard Berry
Rémy Castelli, le pilote d'avion, fils aîné de Léon
Peter Riegert
Walter Giammanca, le boss américain
Macha Méril
Mme Armande Labrouche
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Norbert Castelli; second fils de Léon
Gérard Darmon
Gaby Atlan
Fiona Gélin
Sylvette Landry
Marthe Villalonga
Mme Simone Castelli
Jean Benguigui
Benjamin Fitoussi, alias "Johnny"
Patrick Bruel
Pierre-Marie Labrouche, adopté par Étienne
Michel Creton
José, travaille chez les Labrouche
Sam Karmann
Rabinovitch, soldat américain
Alexandre Aja
Raphaël Labrouche
Michael Edwards Stevens
Charlie, soldat américain
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arcady shot in Morocco partly to access his own Algerian-Jewish family history; his parents fled in 1962.
The film bombed because French audiences in 1983 weren't ready to confront Vichy collaboration so directly—Arcady basically predicted The Sorrow and the Pity's cultural reckoning by a decade.
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