Sympathetic acting by the young boy Rachid Ferrache, he is an adorable young fan as well as a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution. Special mention mention to Gunter Mesneir in a double role as Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler, he is frankly hilarious as Hitler's jealous sister. Enjoyable acting by main star names, Jean Paul Belmondo and Marie-France Pisier as Gaby, an attractive reporter. In this action comedy Belmondo steals the show, as he runs, bounds and leaps he jumps over balcony, cars and executes his own stunts, braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style. The film includes documentary footage of 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and images about American sprinter Jesse Owens.
This fun movie packs thrills, emotion, intrigue, exciting flying scenes, lively performances, spectacular WWII planes and a moving finale. Later on, there take place several adventurous escapes to Switzerland and chased by nasty Nazis until that the group arrives in a countryside mansion which turns out to be the Hitler (Gunter Meisner) refuge -Berchtesgaden. The French boxer named Jo Cavalier is charmed by a kid who asks his autograph on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany when he results to be a Jewish child as Jo attempts to save Simon and his family. Meanwhile, Gestapo and Nazi troops on their heals. It is a highly entertaining caper set in WWII Germany, where our hero, Jo (Jean Paul Belmondo), must help some pursued Jews and a little boy called Simon Rosenblum and being reluctantly supported by a journalist (Marie France Pisier) and a Nazi officer who became his friend in World War I, during their period as contender pilots. Beginning in the air over the Western Front during 1916, where ever shows up a young corporal Hitler, the picture moves from Paris to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
This is an amusing film that contains hilarious scenes, noisy action, suspense, thrills, dogfighting and may other things.