Ace of Aces
L'as des as
France, West Germany
1982
100 Min
Color
1.66:1
French, German
Synopsis
Jo Cavalier is the coach for the French boxing team at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the train to Berlin, he is accosted by a ten year old Jewish boy, Simon, who asks for his autograph – previously Jo was a flying hero who served in the flying corps during World War I. Simon was meant to join his family in Berlin, but when they do not meet him at the station, Jo takes him under his wing. Simon’s family have narrowly evaded being arrested by the Nazis, and Jo manages to supply them with a limousine so that they can escape to Austria. A short while later, Jo receives a telephone call from a distressed Simon, saying that his family have just been arrested. Jo comes to the rescue in a plane supplied by a friendly German officer. Having fended off armed German soldiers, persistent Gestapo officers and an over-attentive bear cub, Jo and Simon manage to rescue Simon’s family. Once more, they head for the Alps, but they take a wrong turning. Instead of heading for Austria, they end up in Hitler’s secret mountain retreat… —filmsdefrance
Director
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury (29 April 1919, Paris – 20 July 2006, Saint-Tropez) was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.
The son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist, and Marcelle Houry, a journalist, Oury studied at Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française just one year before World War II, but fled to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish laws decreed by the Vichy government.
After 1945 he re-started his career as an actor, performing in the theatre and in supporting roles in the cinema. Oury became a movie director in 1959 (The Itchy Palm) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas).
Joining André Bourvil and Louis de Funès as a comic duo, he burst into commercial filmmaking with 1965’s The Sucker (Le corniaud). The following year, Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) was even more successful… read more
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