King of Hearts (1966)
December 21, 1966Release Date
King of Hearts (1966)
December 21, 1966Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Alan Bates
Le Soldat Charles Plumpick
Geneviève Bujold
Coquelicot
Pierre Brasseur
Le Général Géranium
Jean-Claude Brialy
Le Duc de Trèfle
Adolfo Celi
Le Colonel Mac Bibenbrook
Françoise Christophe
La Duchesse
Julien Guiomar
Monseigneur Marguerite
Micheline Presle
Madame Eglantine
Michel Serrault
Monsieur Marcel
Palau
Alberic
Jacques Balutin
Mac Fish
Philippe de Broca
Director
Daniel Boulanger
Writer
Pier Paolo Capponi
Un officier anglais
Maurice Bessy
Writer
Madeleine Clervanne
Brunehaut
Marc Dudicourt
Le Lieutenant Hamburger
Michelle de Broca
Producer
Georges Adet
L'aliéné-docteur (uncredited)
Georges Delerue
Composer
Jackie Blanchot
Le Gabalou (uncredited)
Pierre Lhomme
Cinematographer
Robert Blome
Un aliéné (uncredited)
Anne Baronnet
Editor
Jean-Marie Bon
Un aliéné (uncredited)
Françoise Javet
Editor
Philippe Bruneau
Un académicien (uncredited)
Kenout Peltier
Editor
François de Lamothe
ProductionDesigner
Paul Faivre
Le coiffeur (uncredited)
Georges Guéret
Le soldat avec Mac Fish (uncredited)
Louis Jojot
Gontrand (uncredited)
Jacques Mauclair
Le maire (uncredited)
Daniel Prévost
Le Général Vallemat (uncredited)
Yves Robert
Le général Baderna (uncredited)
Sabine Sun
Mimi la Rose (uncredited)
Sylvain
Le suisse (uncredited)
Eric Vasberg
Un soldat avec Mac Fish (uncredited)
Jacques Fonteray
Costume Design
Vincent Rossell
Still Photographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 21, 1966
Original NameLe Roi de cœur
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
Genres
Wiki.
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 explode. The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape the asylum and take over the town — thoroughly confusing the lone Scottish soldier who has been dispatched to defuse the bomb.
Though the film is set during WWI, the main message against war which the film pushes is intended to be about the Vietnam war, which France had already been involved in for over a decade at that point. The connection between the "war to end all wars" and the then current conflict would have been obvious to French moviegoers at the time. Likewise its status as a cult film is largely because of its connection to the anti-war movement in the 1960s.