Released:
1982-10-27

Overview:
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.

Director:
Gérard Oury

Runtime:
1h 40min

Genre:
Adventure, Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  as
  Jo Cavalier
• 
  Marie-France Pisier
  as
  Gaby Delcourt
• 
  Rachid Ferrache
  as
  Simon Rosenblum
• 
  Frank Hoffmann
  as
  Gunther von Beckman
• 
  Günter Meisner
  as
  Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler