A taxi for Tobrouk

a taxi for Tobrouk is a French film carried out by Denys of Patellière, left in 1961.

Synopsis

At the time of the Second world war, a Commando French of four men is lost in the desert of the the Sahara after a mission. Their Chevrolet of LRDG destroyed by an air attack, they seize a German vehicle and capture its officer to rejoin Tobrouk before being discovered.

Comment

Put aside the dialogs (Michel Audiard), this film shows especially the nonsense of the situations which are created during a war, and which this one does not regulate. The antimilitarism of film is its discussion thread, and the exchanges between the officers and the troupiers, the French and the German, are finally impressed kind of friendship which puts them all equal vis-a-vis the war and its devastations.

Lino Ventura and Charles Aznavour is surrounded by three supporting roles also good actors. To know which finally will carry it, of the German or the French, remains always also delicious to see: this door-close in full desert will be really a revelation for these men.

In the course of road, they learned how to know each other and end up fraternizing.

Anecdote

According to Pierre Bellemare, a taxi for Tobrouk would be the strongly modified version of a real history of two Danish and German soldiers being lost at the time of a continuation in Greenland in 1943 then having made the way of return, with half-deaths, together.

Data sheet

Title: a taxi for Tobrouk
Realization: Denys of Patellière
Scenario: Rene Havard adapted of his novel
Dialogs: Michel Audiard
Poster artist: Clement Hurel
Production company: Gaumont
Country of origin: France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain
Format: Black & White
Kind: drama
Lasted: 97 minutes
Coming out date: May 12th 1961

Distribution

Lino Ventura: Théo Dumas
Hardy Krüger: Ludwig von Stegel
Charles Aznavour: Samuel Goldman
Maurice Biraud: François Jonsac
German Cobos: Paolo Ramirez
Dominique Rozan: the aggressive spectator during the final procession (not credited)
Fernando Sancho (not credited)
Enrique Avila (not credited)
Carlos Mendy (not credited)
Roland Ménard: voice of the narrator
Marcel Bozzuffi: voice of German Cobos

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