Weekend at Dunkirk
Directed byHenri Verneuil
Written byFrançois Boyer
Robert Merle
Produced byRaymond Hakim
Robert Hakim
StarringJean-Paul Belmondo
CinematographyHenri Decaë
Edited byClaude Durand
Music byMaurice Jarre
Production
companies
Paris Film Productions
Interopa Film
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 18 December 1964 (1964-12-18)
Running time
119 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office3,154,140 admissions (France)[1]

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

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

  1. ^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story
  2. ^ Fremont-Smith, Eliot (2009). "New York Times: Weekend à Zuydcoote". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 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. ISBN 9780818404856.

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Films directed by Henri Verneuil
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