Ace of Aces (1982)
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100 min
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.
- Release date
- October 27, 1982
- Country of origin
- France, Germany
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Cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jo Cavalier
- Marie-France Pisier as Gaby Delcourt
- Rachid Ferrache as Simon Rosenblum
- Frank Hoffmann as Günther von Beckmann
- Günter Meisner as Adolf Hitler
- Benno Sterzenbach as Major Aschbach - Gestapo officer
- Yves Pignot as Lucien
- Florent Pagny as Boxer
- Sonya Tuchmann as Sarah Rosenblum
- Stéphane Ferrara as Micholo, boxer
- Jean-Roger Milo as Emile
- Maurice Auzel as Boxing trainer
- Michael Gahr as Brückner, Hitler's adjutant
- Martin Umbach as Lazare Rosenblum
- Hans Wyprächtiger as Oberleutnant 'Grandpa' Rosenblum
- Peter Bonke
- Gerd Roman Frosch
- David Gabison
- Tamara Kafka
- Marc Lamole
- Jacqueline Noëlle
- Pierre Semmler
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Jesse Owens as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Günter Meisner as Angela Hitler
Crew
- Gérard Oury · Director
- Gérard Oury · Writer
- Danièle Thompson · Writer
- Horst Wendlandt · Writer
- Jean-Paul Belmondo · Producer
- Horst Wendlandt · Producer
- Vladimir Cosma · Composer
- Xaver Schwarzenberger · Cinematographer
- Albert Jurgenson · Editor
- Sabine Schroth · Casting director
- Rolf Zehetbauer · Production designer