
Golden Years(2017)
The true story of a French WW1 deserter who, with the support of his wife, spends a decade in disguise as a woman.


“De Broca's Crowning Touch!”
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.

Alan Bates
Charles Plumpick

Geneviève Bujold
Coquelicot

Pierre Brasseur
General Géranium

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

Françoise Christophe
Duchess

Julien Guiomar
Monseigneur Marguerite
King of Hearts is a comedy, drama, war film released in 1966 exploring themes of world war i, asylum, time bomb, ornithologist. Directed by Philippe de Broca, it stars Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur. 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.
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