Ace of Aces

Original title: L'as des as

1982
1h 40m

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6.6/10

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Jean-Paul Belmondo in Ace of Aces (1982)

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Boxing Adventure Comedy Sport

In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

4.3K

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See production info at IMDbPro

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- 1 nomination

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Because of its huge advertising campaign on bill boards and in metro stations 25 French critics called moviegoers to boycott L'AS DES AS. They argued that Belmondo would displace smaller, more important movies like Jacques Demy's UNE CHAMBRE EN VILLE. Belmondo answered in newspapers with the words of Jean Cocteau: "Critics like to blame those who hold their head a little bit higher than the others." And Belmondo added that he does movies only for audiences not for critics. A year later he said in an interview: "Critics say that my movies won't last. Who cares? I live now."

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The coat of arms from the Romanian flag in front of the hotel where the French delegation has been accommodated was adopted only after 1965.

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Featured in Cinemania: I anodos kai i ptosi tou Nazismou (2008)

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7/10

comedic action film, exactly what to expect from Belmondo 7\10

Jean Paul Belmondo is one of the greatest French actors of the last centuries, moreover one of the best stuntman alive in movie history. "ace of aces" is a incredible and great action movie of his taking place in the Berlin Olympic Games before World War 2. A French boxer is accompanying the French delegation to the Olympics but on the way befriends with a little Jewish boy and decides to save his family from the Nazis.

It is a wonderful and humorous film, although on the way focuses on turning events happening in Germany such as the upcoming holocaust.

In the same sense, the movie sort of creates this type of adventure film around World War 2 and how the main hero comes out victorious against Hitler, just like in other movies such as "Don't look now, were being shot at" and "Tex Avery". A really fun and well made movie.