Dive into the world of Henri Verneuil with this Les Morfalous Poster, a film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Humor, action, and strong emotions guaranteed! Discover it now.
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Description of this Poster Les Morfalous
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 World War II, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is tasked with recovering gold bars worth six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour for safekeeping for the French government.
On April 5, 1943, a contingent of the Foreign Legion entered the apparently abandoned and partially destroyed town of El Ksour. Unbeknownst to them, a German platoon 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.
That night, legionnaire Borzik leaves with Warrant Officer Mahuzard (Michel Constantin) to retrieve weapons and ammunition. But Borzik is killed.
The remaining legionnaires are Sergeant Augagneur (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Boissier (Michel Creton). They find the corpulent and faint-hearted artilleryman Béral (Jacques Villeret) sitting in the bathroom, 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 with the original mission. A fight ensues between Mahuzard and Augagneur. Augagneur wins and locks Mahuzard in a room, just as the bank manager, François de La Roche-Fréon, arrives.
Augagneur then tries to seduce François’s wife, Hélène. They are interrupted by German Lieutenant Karl, who arrives in a tank. Karl had befriended Hélène during the occupation. Helen helps Augagneur capture Karl and suggests they take the gold and sell it to an American money launderer, Bob Turner, and divide 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 vault. 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 about to leave. Meanwhile, François has electrocuted himself to death by urinating on a live wire.
Augagneur sends Boissier to seize the van. Mahuzard shoots Boissier dead. Karl fires at 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 offer to him in exchange for Augagneur. The two ex-soldiers then load the bulk of the gold 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 to avoid detection. 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.”