An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.


Michel Serrault
Monsieur Marcel

Jean-Claude Brialy
Duke of Clover

Adolfo Celi
Schottischer Colonel

Micheline Presle
Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine

Philippe de Broca
Adolf Hitler