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Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.Read moreLess
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.
The story
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.
Cast & crew
Hildegard KnefMadeleine Durand
Bernhard WickiLuigi Locatelli
Hannes MessemerRobert Altmann
Helmut SchmidPat Kilby
Joachim HansenKurt Gerber
Harry MeyenJean de Maire
Werner PetersBrouillard
Siegfried LowitzKapitän Gerlach
Ursula DiestelLucienne Germanini
Friedrich MaurerCast
Leonard SteckelCast
Hanita HallanCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Director of Photography
- Václav Vích
- Screenplay
- Werner Jörg Lüddecke
- Screenplay
- Johannes Mario Simmel
- Editor
- Martha Dübber
- Screenplay
- Emil Burri
- Original Music Composer
- Siegfried Franz
- Producer
- Peter Schaeffers
- Producer
- Aldo von Pinelli