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La Grande Vadrouille (1966)

La Grande Vadrouille poster
Directed by
Gérard Oury
Genre
comedy film, war film
Country
United Kingdom, France
Runtime
2h 12m
Rated
G
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 1,474 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, the crew of a British bomber is shot down over Paris in 1942. A group of ordinary French civilians must help the airmen escape through German-occupied France.

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What happens

La Grande Vadrouille (French pronunciation: [la ɡʁɑ̃d vadʁuj]; transl. "The Great Stroll"), originally released in the United Kingdom as Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!, is a 1966 French-British comedy film directed by Gérard Oury about French civilians who, in 1942, help the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber that has been shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied France to safe territory. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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