The Cow and I (1959)
La Vache et le Prisonnier
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
- Date of release
- 1959-12-16
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (145)
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- War, Comedy, Adventure
- Director
- Henri Verneuil
Casting
- Fernandel — Charles Bailly
- René Havard — Bussière
- Bernard Musson — Pommier
- Ellen Schwiers — Josépha, la fermière
- Pierre-Louis — un évadé déguisé
- Franziska Kinz — la mère d'Helga
- Maurice Nasil — Bertoux
- Richard Winckler — L'autre évadé déguisé
- Ingeborg Schöner — Helga
- Heinrich Gretler — Bockmann
- Benno Hoffmann — un Garde
- Albert Hehn — Leutnant auf der Brücke
Interesting facts
La Vache et le Prisonnier is a French-Italian tragicomedy film from 1959, starring Fernandel and directed by Henri Verneuil, that is based on Jacques Antoine's 1945 novel, Une histoire vraie. It tells the story of a French prisoner of war in World War II forced to work on a farm in Germany who decides to escape by walking away with a cow he calls Marguerite.
Production
The film was shot in black and white, and in 1990 a colorized version was released.
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