Screenplay:
Harry KleinerComposer:
Michel LegrandCast:
Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Luc Merenda, Louise Edlind, Angelo Infanti, Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Claude Bercq, Ronald Leigh-Hunt (more)VOD (1)
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Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. Every few hours the two drivers per car alternate - but it's still a challenge for concentration and material. In the focus is the duel between the German Stahler in Ferrari 512LM and the American Delaney in Gulf Team Porsche 917. Delaney is under extraordinary pressure, because the year before he caused a severe accident, in which his friend Lisa's husband was killed. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Steve McQueen
USA
Best movies:
Les Sept Mercenaires (1960)
Papillon (1973)
The Great Escape (1963)
Siegfried Rauch
German Empire
Best movies:
Patton (1970)
Le Mans (1971)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Elga Andersen
German Empire
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)
The Serpent (1973)
Luc Merenda
France
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
Law Breakers (1971)
Silent Action (1975)
Louise Edlind
Sweden
Best movies:
Tjorven and Skrållan (1965)
Tjorven och Mysak (1966)
Skrållan, Nasty and Grumble (1967)
Angelo Infanti
Italy
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV movie)
Carlo Cecchi
Italy
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
The Good Pope John XXIII (2003) (TV movie)
Jean-Claude Bercq
France
Richard Rüdiger
German Empire
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
Conrad Pringle
USA
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
Fred Haltiner
Switzerland
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)
Peter Parten
German Empire
Best movies:
Le Mans (1971)
Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)