''Kiss Me General'' (original title: ''Martin Soldat'') is a 1966
French comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and in ...
and starring
Robert Hirsch,
Véronique Vendell
Véronique Vendell (born Véronique Duraffourd, 21 July 1942) is a French actress. She appeared mainly in French and German productions, but had roles in both Peter Glenville's ''Becket'' and Sam Peckinpah's ''Cross of Iron'' and its sequel '' ...
,
Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appe ...
,
Marlène Jobert
Marlène Jobert (born 4 November 1940) is a French actress and author.
Life and career
Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family, the daughter of Eliane Azulay and Charles Jobert, who served in the French A ...
and
Anthony Sharp. An actor disguises himself as a soldier during the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, but is mistaken for a soldier and becomes a war hero during the Allied Liberation of France in 1944.
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Cast
* Robert Hirsch - Martin
* Véronique Vendell
Véronique Vendell (born Véronique Duraffourd, 21 July 1942) is a French actress. She appeared mainly in French and German productions, but had roles in both Peter Glenville's ''Becket'' and Sam Peckinpah's ''Cross of Iron'' and its sequel '' ...
- Zouzou
* Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appe ...
- Général von Haffelrats
* Marlène Jobert
Marlène Jobert (born 4 November 1940) is a French actress and author.
Life and career
Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family, the daughter of Eliane Azulay and Charles Jobert, who served in the French A ...
- La résistante
* Anthony Sharp - Major
* Reinhard Kolldehoff
Reinhard Kolldehoff (29 April 1914 – 18 November 1995) was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.
Selected filmography
* '' The Gasman'' (1941) - Polizeibeamter (uncr ...
- Le chef de la Gestapo
* Paul-Emile Deiber - Le général de Lamarzelle
* Adrien Cayla-Legrand
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People Given name
* Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), French astronomer
* Adrien Baill ...
- Charles De Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
.
References
External links
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1966 films
1966 comedy films
French comedy films
1960s French-language films
Films directed by Michel Deville
Western Front of World War II films
Cultural depictions of Charles de Gaulle
1960s French films
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