The Cow and I (1959)
La vache et le prisonnier
118 min
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
- Release date
- December 16, 1959
- Country of origin
- Italy, France
- Music
- Paul Durand
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Cast
- Fernandel as Charles Bailly - prisonnier de guerre
- René Havard as Vicomte Bussière - prisonnier de guerre
- Bernard Musson as Pommier - prisonnier de guerre
- Ellen Schwiers as Josepha alias 'Marlène' - la fermière
- Pierre-Louis as Hauptmann Müller - évadé déguisé en SS
- Franziska Kinz as la mère d'Helga
- Maurice Nasil as Bertoux - prisonnier de guerre
- Richard Winckler as Hauptmann Rupp - évadé déguisé en SS
- Ingeborg Schöner as Helga
- Heinrich Gretler as Bockmann
- Benno Hoffmann as un Garde
- Albert Hehn as Leutnant auf der Brücke
- Dieter Hildebrandt as Soldat
- Georg Lehn as Gestapo
- Willy Rösner as Vater von Helga
- Albert Rémy as Colinet - prisonnier de guerre dans la scierie
Crew
- Henri Verneuil · Director
- Henri Jeanson · Writer
- Henri Verneuil · Writer
- Jean Manse · Writer
- Jacques Antoine · Writer
- Adry De Carbuccia · Producer
- Roland Girard · Producer
- Paul Durand · Composer
- Roger Hubert · Cinematographer
- James Cuenet · Editor