Gates of Fire (1972)
Les Portes de feu
In October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a doctor and four nurses strayed into the desert. Prisoners of a German unit and aware that it was going to use them to ambush the Allied relief column, they set out to foil the plan.
- Date of release
- 1972-03-15
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- War
- Director
- Claude Bernard-Aubert
Casting
- Emmanuelle Riva — The Baroness
- Dany Carrel — Solange
- Annie Cordy — Andrée
- Juliette Mills — Lili
- Georges Aminel — The doctor
- Jacques Brunet — Ludwig
- Rolph Spath — Hans
- Jacques Balutin — Guard soldier
- Alexandre Grecq — Kurd
- Antoine Baud — Franz
- Jean Houbé
- François Mirante
Interesting facts
The Gates of Fire is a 1972 French war drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Emmanuelle Riva, Dany Carrel, Annie Cordy and Juliette Mills. Location shooting took place in the Camargue in Southern France standing in for wartime Libya.
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