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The Morfalous
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Immerse yourself in the world of Henri Verneuil with this Poster of Les Morfalous, film with Jean-Paul Belmondo. Humor, action and strong emotions guaranteed! Discover it now.
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Description of this The Morfalous Poster
Les Morfalous is a 1984 French adventure film, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Henri Verneuil, featuring the French Foreign Legion during World War II.
It is a remake of the American war film Kelly's Heroes (1970).
In French Tunisia, during the Second World War, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is responsible for recovering gold bars worth six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour in order to put them in a safe place for the French government.
On April 5, 1943, a contingent of the Foreign Legion entered the town of El Ksour, apparently abandoned and partially destroyed. Unbeknownst to them, a German section holds the town and ambushes the FFL convoy, killing most of them. Only five legionnaires survive the attack and take refuge in a ruined hotel.
At night, the legionnaire Borzik leaves with adjutant Mahuzard (Michel Constantin) to recover weapons and ammunition. But Borzik is killed.
The remaining legionnaires are Sergeant Augagneur (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Boissier (Michel Creton). They find the artilleryman Béral (Jacques Villeret), corpulent and pusillanimous, sitting in the toilet, suffering from dysentery.
Béral and Augagneur then sneak in and use a howitzer on the Germans, killing them all except Captain Karl Brenner.
The legionnaires enter the bank. Augagneur and Boissier want to seize the gold, but Mahuzard wants to continue the initial mission. A fight begins between Mahuzard and Augagneur. Augagneur wins and locks Mahuzard in a room, while the bank director arrives, François de La Roche-Fréon.
Augagneur then tries to seduce Hélène, François' wife. They are interrupted by German lieutenant Karl, who arrives in an assault tank. Karl became friends with Hélène during the occupation. Helen helps Augagneur capture Karl and suggests that they take the gold and sell it to an American launderer, Bob Turner, and split it three ways.
Meanwhile, in the bank, Mahuzard convinces Béral to release him. He captures Augagneur and Karl upon their return and locks them in a vault with Bossier.
Mahuzard has dinner with the bank manager and his wife, who steals the key to the safe. Hélène frees Augagneur, Boissier and Karl. They return with the tank to surprise Mahuzard and Béral who have just finished loading the gold into an armored van and are preparing to leave. In the meantime, François electrocuted himself to death by urinating on a live wire.
Augagneur sends Boissier to seize the van. Mahuzard kills Boissier. Karl shoots the tank and completely destroys the van containing the gold, killing Mahuzard and Béral instantly.
Hélène tries to convince Augagneur to kill Karl, but he refuses. Karl also reveals that Hélène made the same proposition to him against Augagneur. The two ex-soldiers then load the bulk of the bars into the truck, leaving only 300 kilos of gold for Hélène while they take 10,000.
Augagneur and Karl head south with the tank to sell the gold, but have to stop at a German gas station to refuel. Karl persuades Augagneur to leave the tank so as not to be spotted. The German commander wants the tank. Augagneur escapes into the desert and must abandon the gold.
The film ends with a quote from Blaise Cendrars: "I was the richest man in the world, gold ruined me."
