Les patates
Release date
1969
Dramatic Comedy .
90 min
During the German Occupation of France, a village in the Ardennes is hard up to get food supplies. Clovis, a foundry worker, crosses over into the Zone to bring potatoes back feed his family. He manages to do so at the cost of a series of misadventures. However Clovis soon becomes obsessed with hoarding the precious tubers. Tragedy strikes when the starving Germans arrive in the village.
A film by
Claude AUTANT-LARA
With
Pierre PERRET, Henri VIRLOJEUX, Bérangère DAUTUN, Pascale ROBERTS, Odette DUC, Jacques BALUTIN, RUFUS, Bernard LAJARRIGE, Lucien HUBERT, Luce FABIOLE, Hubert DE LAPPARENT, René HAVARD, Marc EYRAUD, Gérard BUHR, Jean-Pierre IGOUX, Christine AUREL, RIGAS, LANFRANDI, Gib GROSSAC, Georges DOUKING, E. CAREN, Edmond CAILLIÈRE, Robert BLOME, Pierre VANECK, Jeanne ALLARD, Laurent DELON, Jocelyn CANOËN, Alain GRELLIER, Pierre COLLET, Raymonde VATTIER, Jean-Pierre RENAULT, Jean LUISI, Jean LEC, Gaël DELON, Tony ROËDEL, Jacques COTTIN, Pascal TERSON, Colette PROUST
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Dialogist
Jean AURENCHE