La Grande Vadrouille, Mon Amour

It was in the 1980s. If I was attending school, I was in the primary classes. My granny and I would go to the local cinema every so often. One day we went to see a French film which name was translated into Russian as "The Big Walk". It was the one of the first times I've seen a foreign film. It was one of the first times I've seen a French film. It was certainly the first film with Louis de Funes that I saw. And I loved the film so much that I pleaded with my Gran to go and watch it with me once again. In the scope of one or two weeks I saw La Grande Vadrouille twice. Then I saw it a couple of times of Russian TV. And I've just scoured YouTube trying to find the extract below, which I loved imitating. The main participants are Louis de Funes and Bourvil.



A short synopsis from IMDb.com:

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders

I have little more to say, except that I want to watch this film again! There are some extracts on YouTube, which you may like to find and see for yourself. La Grande Vadrouille is an undying classic, although when I saw the scenes below I suddenly realised that, being a child, with little knowledge of life, I didn't see all that was humourous about these extracts.