A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
2차 대전 말, 연합군은 미 사령관 아이젠 하워의 지휘하에 독일과의 전쟁을 종결시킬 작전을 구상한다. 그것은 유럽의 중심지이자 프랑스의 해안지방인 노르망디에 극비의 상륙작전을 개시하는 것. 이러한 연합군의 작전 계획을 염탐한 독일군은 2차대전 최대의 격전지인 프랑스 노르망디를 사수하고자 경계를 더욱 강화한다. 치밀한 작전 계획을 준비한 연합군은 작전 성공을 위해 비가 오는 악천후 속에서도 훈련을 거듭하고 병사들 사이에서는 서서히 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 1944년 6월 6일 새벽, 드디어 런던의 연합군 최고 사령부는 노르망디 상륙작전의 개시를 알리는데...
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. - from IMDB
A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The story has changed from a Russian officer who returns home from the war to find his wife has remarried, to a former paratrooper who tries to drive a stolen truck back from Morocco and suffers an accident -- and the same fate as the Russian. As a result of his injuries and the subsequent delay, the ex-military man is unable to get home as scheduled, and the woman he loves decides that he has left her. Once she "realizes" that supposed truth, she decides to marry her boss. As in the earlier film, one of the protagonists ends up in the French Foreign Legion and all three head toward a fateful meeting in a North African desert.
