If you want some good light-hearted entertainment, this is a film I heartily recommend. German actors play the Germans, for instance, and converse in German, though they can speak a bit of French now and then to communicate. I found it laudable, too, that the film-makers took the trouble to cast native speakers of languages in all the speaking roles. Bourvil is a joy, and the rest of them, from Terry-Thomas to Benno Sterzenbach as the German Major Achbach, are uniformly good. Le Grande Vadrouille, I think, is even better (and de FunГЁs is better, too) than Le Grand Restaurant. Louis de FunГЁs I had discovered while watching Le Grand Restaurant, and I liked him so much, I was eager to watch other films of his. Just how someone (director/scenario writer GГ©rard Oury, and adaptation writers Marcel Julien and DaniГЁle Thompson) could make such a hilarious romp out of something that could have been just an edge-of-the-seat adventure, says a lot for the importance of story and script in good cinema.ДЄnd, the acting. Even when youвЂ™re certain somebody must have died in that particular incident, the film takes just a moment to show you that no, all is well. As an example of how frothy this is: while there are guns aplenty, and much shooting etc happening, nobody ever dies. ItвЂ™s pure escapist fun, an utter farce, even though itвЂ™s set in a time of war, of the Nazi occupation of France. This one, in my opinion, is the sort of film thatвЂ™s tailor-made for people whoвЂ™re struggling to stay sane through the pandemic.

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