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  1. King of Hearts (original French title: Le Roi de cœur) is a 1966 French/Italian international co-production comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates and Geneviève Bujold. The film is set in a small town in France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats, they booby trap the whole town to ...

  2. King of Hearts: Directed by Philippe de Broca. With Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Geneviève Bujold, Adolfo Celi. During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

    • (4.4K)
    • Comedy, Drama, War
    • Philippe de Broca
    • 1967-06-19
  3. Mar 8, 2018 · Philippe de Broca’s newly restored 1966 film “The King of Hearts” remains a surrealistic jewel of a comedy on waging war.

  4. May 9, 2018 · During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army.

    • 2 min
    • 21K
    • Cohen Film Collection
  5. An ornithologist, mistaken for an explosives expert, is sent alone into a small French town during World War I to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.

  6. Villagers in a small town North of France in 1918 believe their homes will be blown up by the Germans and quickly evacuate; Scottish soldier Alan Bates is "volunteered" to infiltrate, and inadvertently lets loose the patients in a lunatic asylum who got left behind.

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  8. This quirky comedic war film focuses on Scottish soldier Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates), who is sent to a French town on a mission to disarm a bomb left behind by the retreating German...

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    • Comedy
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