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King of Hearts (original French title: Le Roi de cœur) is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates. 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.
King of Hearts plays a royal flush in visual comedy whilst succinctly revealing its war microcosm. In a small picturesque town established in France, towards the end of the First World War, a squadron of Imperial German troops implement an explosive booby trap in the conspicuous “blockhouse” that will obliterate the entire vicinity when the “knight strikes midnight”.
Title Screen : Movie Title/Year and Scene Descriptions: Screenshots: King of Hearts (1966, Fr.) (aka Le Roi de Cœur) In director Philippe De Broca's cult classic sleeper film about the insanity of war - a quirky anti-war fable set at the end of WWI:
King of Hearts is a film directed by Philippe de Broca with Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar .... Year: 1966. Original title: Le roi de coeur.
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An all-time foreign film classic, "Le Roi De Coeur," aka "King Of Hearts," is a marvelous movie, full of sweetness, charm, and both clever comedy & fine drama that also comments very well on the stupidity of war.
During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the re...
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