Weekend at Dunkirk

Weekend at Dunkirk () is a 1964 war drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel "Week-end at Zuydcoote" (French: "Week-end à Zuydcoote") by Robert Merle.
Plot.
Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French soldier who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy's boat flotilla to England. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French partners are hard pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.
Reception.
The film was the ninth most popular movie at the French box office in 1964.
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.