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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.
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Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Micheline Presle, Philippe de Broca, Françoise Christophe, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Palau, Jacques Balutin
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