Weekend at Dunkirk

Weekend at Dunkirk
Weekend at Dunkirk
Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Written by	François Boyer; Robert Merle
Produced by	Raymond Hakim; Robert Hakim
Starring	Jean-Paul Belmondo
Edited by	Claude Durand
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Release date	1964;
Running time	119 minutes
Countries	France; Italy
Language	French
Box office	3,154,140 admissions (France)

Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) is a 1964 war drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.^[2] It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) by Robert Merle.

Plot[]

Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French soldier who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy's boat flotilla to England. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French partners are hard pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.

Selected cast[]

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Staff sergeant French Army Julien Maillat
Catherine Spaak as Jeanne
Jean-Pierre Marielle as a French military chaplain friend of Maillat
François Périer as Alexandre
Pierre Mondy as Dhéry
Pierre Vernier as undertaker
Paul Préboist as a soldier
Ronald Howard as captain Robinson
Eric Sinclair : le capitaine Clark
Donald O'Brien as the English sergeant controlling the lines on the beach
Kenneth Haigh : John Atkins
Marie Dubois : Hélène, the French wife of Atkins
Nigel Stock as the English sergeant carrying rocking horse and burned during a German attack
Christian Barbier : Paul

Reception[]

The film was the ninth most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.^[3]

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,700,000 in rentals to break even and made $1,755,000, meaning it made a profit.^[4]

References[]

^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story
^ Fremont-Smith, Eliot (2009). "New York Times: Weekend à Zuydcoote". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
^ "1964 French box office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
^ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 325.

External links[]

Week-end à Zuydcoote at IMDb
Weekend at Dunkirk at Le Film Guide
Kirkup, James (2 April 2004). "Obituaries: Robert Merle". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2015.

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[1] Box office information for film at Box Office Story

[NY_Times-2] Fremont-Smith, Eliot (2009). "New York Times: Weekend à Zuydcoote". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2008-09-03.

[3] "1964 French box office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

[4] Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 325.

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