The Cow and I (1959)
1h 58m
Running Time
December 16, 1959Release Date
The Cow and I (1959)
1h 58m
Running Time
December 16, 1959Release Date
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Plot.
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
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Cast & Crew.
Fernandel
Charles Bailly - prisonnier de guerre
Pierre-Louis
Hauptmann Müller - évadé déguisé en SS
Ellen Schwiers
Josepha alias 'Marlène' - la fermière
Ingeborg Schöner
Helga
Franziska Kinz
la mère d'Helga
Heinrich Gretler
Bockmann
Richard Winckler
Hauptmann Rupp - évadé déguisé en SS
Bernard Musson
Pommier - prisonnier de guerre
Maurice Nasil
Bertoux - prisonnier de guerre
René Havard
Vicomte Bussière - prisonnier de guerre
Albert Rémy
Colinet - prisonnier de guerre dans la scierie
Benno Hoffmann
un Garde
Henri Verneuil
Director
Albert Hehn
Leutnant auf der Brücke
Dieter Hildebrandt
Soldat
Jacques Antoine
Writer
Henri Jeanson
Writer
Til Kiwe
SS.Offizier
Jean Manse
Writer
Georg Lehn
Gestapo
Willy Rösner
Vater von Helga
Adry De Carbuccia
Producer
René Gaston Vuattoux
Production Manager
Roland Girard
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 16, 1959
Original NameLa Vache et le Prisonnier
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 58m
Genres
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Wiki.
La Vache et le Prisonnier (English version: "The Cow and I") is a French-Italian tragicomedy film from 1959, starring Fernandel and directed by Henri Verneuil, that is based on Jacques Antoine's 1945 novel, Une histoire vraie (A True Story). It tells the story of a French prisoner of war in World War II forced to work on a farm in Germany who decides to escape by walking away with a cow he calls Marguerite (Daisy in English).
The most successful film in France in 1959, with over 8 million seats sold, it was also the most successful film of Fernandel's career.
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