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69% Critic Match
King of Hearts
“De Broca's Crowning Touch!”
6.9 / 10• 1966• 1h 42m•NR• French
ComedyDramaWar
Storyline
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Cast & Crew
Alan Bates
Charles Plumpick
Lead
Geneviève Bujold
Coquelicot
Pierre Brasseur
General Géranium
Michel Serrault
Monsieur Marcel
Jean-Claude Brialy
Duke of Clover
Adolfo Celi
Schottischer Colonel
Micheline Presle
Madame Eva aka Madame Eglantine
Philippe de Broca
Adolf Hitler
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Philippe de Broca's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. King of Hearts is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
