Taxi for Tobruk
Cast & Crew
Denys De La Patellière
Hardy Kruger
Charles Aznavour
Lino Ventura
Germán Cobos
Maurice Biraud
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the summer of 1942, four Free French commandos participating in a raid on Tobruk blow up a gasoline depot in the North African desert, suffering the loss of their truck and commanding officer. They set out on foot to join the Allied forces 400 miles away in El Alamein. After one day in the vast scorching desert, they capture a German patrol car, taking the sole survivor, a young Afrika Korps captain, Ludwig von Stegel, as their prisoner. Relations between the commandos and the German are naturally strained, especially because one commando, Samuel, is a Jew, but as they pass the days in a common ordeal of survival demanding trust and cooperation, hostilities fade into a reluctant but real camaraderie. After they have weathered a bombing and crossed a mine field, they approach their destination. With little of their antagonism remaining, the four commandos are tempted not to turn in their prisoner. But no decision is necessary--mistaken for Germans, they are grenaded by their own allies. Only Théo, the corporal, survives.
Director
Denys De La Patellière
Cast
Hardy Kruger
Charles Aznavour
Lino Ventura
Germán Cobos
Maurice Biraud
Crew
Michel Audiard
Paul-louis Boutié
Georges Garvarentz
Pierre Granier-deferre
Marcel Grignon
René Havard
René Havard
Denys De La Patellière
Denys De La Patellière
Georges Mardiguian
Jacqueline Thiédot
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Produced in France. Opened in West Berlin in May 1961 as Taxi nach Tobruk; running time: 89 min; in Paris in May 1961 as Un taxi pour Tobrouk; running time: 132 min; in Madrid in October 1961 as Un taxi para Tobrouk.
