| Weekend at Dunkirk | |
| Director: | Henri Verneuil |
| Producer: | Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim |
| Starring: | Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| Music: | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography: | Henri Decaë |
| Editing: | Claude Durand |
| Studio: | Paris Film Productions Interopa Film |
| Distributor: | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
| Runtime: | 119 minutes |
| Country: | France Italy |
| Language: | French |
| Gross: | 3,154,140 admissions (France)[1] |
Weekend at Dunkirk (fr|Week-end à Zuydcoote) is a 1964 French-Italian drama war film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.[2] It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) by Robert Merle.
Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French Army sergeant who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy's boat flotilla to Britain. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French squad-mates and colleagues are hard-pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.
The film was the ninth most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.[3]
According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,700,000 in rentals to break even and made $1,755,000, meaning it made a profit.[4]