Weekend at Dunkirk

{{redirect|Week-end à Zuydcoote|the novel|Week-end at Zuydcoote}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Weekend at Dunkirk

| image = Week end a zuydcoote.jpg

| caption =

| director = Henri Verneuil

| producer = Raymond Hakim
Robert Hakim

| writer = François Boyer
Robert Merle

| starring = Jean-Paul Belmondo

| music = Maurice Jarre

| cinematography = Henri Decaë

| editing = Claude Durand

| studio = Paris Film Productions
Interopa Film

| distributor = Pathé Consortium Cinéma

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1964|12|18}}

| runtime = 119 minutes

| country = France
Italy

| language = French

| budget =

| gross = 3,154,140 admissions (France)[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-jean-paul-belmondo-c22691425/23&usg=ALkJrhiQM4oqCcWuEQ2TUspcUAHov8MW1Q Box office information for film] at Box Office Story

}}

Weekend at Dunkirk ({{langx|fr|Week-end à Zuydcoote}}) is a 1964 French-Italian drama war film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.{{cite news |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/116213/Weekend-/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607060008/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/116213/Weekend-/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-06-07 |title=New York Times: Weekend à Zuydcoote |access-date=2008-09-03| first=Eliot |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2009 | last=Fremont-Smith}} It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) by Robert Merle.

Plot

Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French Army sergeant who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy's boat flotilla to Britain. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French squad-mates and colleagues are hard-pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.

Selected cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Staff sergeant French Army Julien Maillat
Catherine Spaak as Jeanne
Jean-Pierre Marielle as a French military chaplain friend of Maillat
François Périer as Alexandre
Pierre Mondy as Dhéry
Pierre Vernier as undertaker
Paul Préboist as a soldier
Ronald Howard as captain Robinson
Eric Sinclair : le capitaine Clark
Donald O'Brien as the British sergeant controlling the lines on the beach
Kenneth Haigh : John Atkins
Marie Dubois : Hélène, the French wife of Atkins
Nigel Stock as the British sergeant carrying rocking horse and burned during a German attack
Christian Barbier : Paul

Reception

The film was the ninth most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.{{cite web|url=https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/france-1964-c22750409&usg=ALkJrhikvyW3lHBC4wgH3OJjjaqT2ePFWw|title=1964 French box office|website=Box Office Story|access-date=28 August 2016}}

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,700,000 in rentals to break even and made $1,755,000, meaning it made a profit.{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/325 325]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856 }}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|id=0058740|title=Week-end à Zuydcoote}}
[http://www.lefilmguide.com/review/week-end-a-zuydcoote-1964.html Weekend at Dunkirk]{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at Le Film Guide
{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-merle-549687.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808152230/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-merle-549687.html |title=Obituaries: Robert Merle |first=James |last=Kirkup |work=The Independent |date=2 April 2004 |archive-date=8 August 2011 |access-date=3 August 2015}}

Category:1964 films

Category:1960s French-language films

Category:1960s war drama films

Category:Films directed by Henri Verneuil

Category:Films set in 1940

Category:Films set in Dunkirk

Category:Dunkirk evacuation films

Category:Films set on beaches

Category:French war drama films

Category:French World War II films

Category:Western Front of World War II films

Category:Films based on French novels

Category:1964 drama films

Category:1960s French films

Category:Italian war drama films

Category:Italian World War II films