Les héros sont fatigués 1955 - Director: Yves Ciampi
Yves Montand, Curd Jürgens, María Félix, Gert Fröbe, Jean Servais
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A former war-time pilot Michel Rivière arrives in the African town of Free City, hoping to find a buyer for some diamonds he found hidden in his aircraft after it crash-landed. He stays at the town’s only hotel, which is run by an alcoholic Frenchman named Séverin, a one-time Nazi collaborator. Séverin’s vicious racism is fuelled when he learns that his wife Manuella has been having an affair with a black man. In a desperate bid to escape her tyrannical husband, Manuella allows Rivière to take her as his mistress. After a tense few days, Rivière finds someone willing to take the diamonds off his hands - Wolf Gerke, an ex-Luftwaffe fighter pilot who has been sent to recover the missing jewels. Rivière initially rejects Gerke’s offer but, realising that he has much in common with him, comes up with an unexpected business proposition. The two men will sell the diamonds for the highest price they can get and create their own aviation company. No sooner has Gerke agreed to this proposal than Séverin absconds with the precious jewels. Unless Rivière can recover the diamonds, all his dreams will be shattered…
