Ace of Aces
L'As des as
Release: 1982-10-27
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 7.1
Adventure
Comedy
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Production Countries
France
Germany
Production Companies
Bavaria Film
Rialto Films
Gaumont International
Cerito Films
Gaumont
Cast
Florent Pagny
as Boxer
Sonja Tuchmann
as Sarah Rosenblum
Peter Bonke
David Gabison
Marc Lamole
Jacqueline Noëlle
Jesse Owens
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yves Pignot
as Lucien
Michael Gahr
as Brückner, Hitler's adjutant
Claus Fuchs
as Dieter
Pierre Semmler
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Jo Cavalier
Marie-France Pisier
as Gaby Delcourt
Rachid Ferrache
as Simon Rosenblum
Frank Hoffmann
as Gunther von Beckman
Jean-Roger Milo
as Emile
Maurice Auzel
as Boxing trainer
Günter Meisner
as Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler
Benno Sterzenbach
as Major Aschbach, Gestapo officer
Stéphane Ferrara
as Micholo, boxer
Martin Umbach
as Lazare Rosenblum
Christoph Lindert
as Mr. Hammel
Hans Wyprächtiger
as Oberleutnant 'Grandpa' Rosenblum
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
