Hardy Krüger

Despair swiftly sets in, and when a desperate attempt by three men to walk to an oasis ends in tragedy, hope seems entirely lost.

Then an aeronautical engineer among them, Dorfman, as played by Hardy Kruger, proposes a seemingly crazy idea.

dismantle the wreckage and build a smaller aircraft to fly themselves to safety.

It's a desperate plan, yet it gives the survivors a powerful focus, channelling their remaining energy and limited resources into something both creative and positive.

Sundays in Koble, directed by Serge Bourguignon, is a poignant exploration of love, trauma, and societal judgment.

Released in nineteen sixty-two, this French drama tells the story of Pierre, played by Hardy Krüger, a war veteran grappling with the psychological scars of his past.

After a tragic incident during the French Indochina War, Pierre returns to France burdened by amnesia and guilt.

His life takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Cybele, played by Patricia Gozzi, a twelve-year-old girl abandoned by her father at a boarding school.

I was two years of National Service, but I was just an ordinary soldier who tried to get out of [laughs] everything rather than Joe Vandeleur, who tried to get into everything." And I'll have more about Vandeleur later on.

And there, of course, is the wonderful Hardy Krüger, who, uh, during World War II was, I think, 14 years old, was a member of the Hitler Youth, and he was drafted into the German army.

Uh, he was not happy about that.

In fact, uh, the story goes, I think it was mentioned in IMDb, that when he had to wear the SS uniform, off-camera he would put an overcoat over it.