Les Morfalous
| Les Morfalous | |
|---|---|
 Original film poster | |
| Directed by | Henri Verneuil |
| Written by |
Michel Audiard Pierre Siniac |
| Starring |
Jean-Paul Belmondo Michel Constantin Marie Laforêt Michel Creton Jacques Villeret |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Jacques Saulnier |
| Edited by | Pierre Gillette |
| Distributed by |
Alain Belmondo Tarak Ben Ammar |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 3,612,400 admissions (France)[1] |
Les Morfalous (literally The Greedy-Guts, in French argot) is a 1984 French adventure film, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Henri Verneuil, featuring the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War.
Plot
In French Tunisia, during the Second World War, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is charged to recover gold bars of six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour in order to bring them into a safe place for the French government.
The 4 April 1943, the contingent of the Foreign Legion enters the town of El Ksour which is partially destroyed. A German platoon, who holds the town, ambush the FFL convoy and kill most of them. Only 5 légionnaires survive the attack and take refuge in a hotel in ruins. At night, légionnaire Borzik is killed while trying to bring weapons and ammunitions back to the rest of the team.
The 4 remaining légionnaires find the corpulent and pusillanimous artilleryman Béral (portrayed by Jacques Villeret) sitting in the toilets, suffering from dysentery. However, with his brave assistance, Sergent Augagneur (Jean-Paul Belmondo) used an abandoned French cannon to kill or drive out the Germans.
Gold feverish Sergent Augagneur wants to share the gold between the four légionnaires and start to fight with Adjudant Mahuzard (Michel Constantin) who wants to accomplish the mission.
Trying to steal the gold bars by heading South with a tank, Sergent Augagneur runs in an entire French army, marching North, and successfully pretends he was looking for them to give the gold bars back. Sergent Augagneur is finally awarded with the Légion d'Honneur for this action.
Cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (Sergent Pierre Augagneur)
- Michel Constantin (Adjudant Edouard Mahuzard)
- Marie Laforêt (Hélène de La Roche-Fréon)
- Michel Creton (Légionnaire Boissier)
- Jacques Villeret (Brigadier Béral)
- François Perrot (François de La Roche-Fréon)
- Maurice Auzel (Légionnaire Borzik)
- Matthias Habich (Oberstleutnant Karl Brenner)
- Pierre Semmler (Hauptmann Ulrich Dieterle)
See also
References
- ↑ Box office information for film at Box office story