''Kiss Me General'' (original title: ''Martin Soldat'') is a 1966

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directed by

Michel Deville Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level o ...

and starring Robert Hirsch,

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Walter Rilla Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He app ...

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and

Anthony Sharp Dennis Anthony John Sharp (16 June 1915 – 23 July 1984) was an English actor, writer and director. Stage career Anthony Sharp was a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA) and made his stage debut in February 1938 ...

. An actor disguises himself as a soldier during the

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, but is mistaken for a soldier and becomes a war hero during the Allied Liberation of France in 1944.BFI.org
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Cast

* Robert Hirsch - Martin *

- Zouzou *

- Général von Haffelrats *

- La résistante *

- Major *

Reinhard Kolldehoff Reinhard Kolldehoff (29 April 1914 – 18 November 1995) was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Gasman'' (1941) - Polizeibeamter (uncr ...

- Le chef de la Gestapo * Paul-Emile Deiber - Le général de Lamarzelle *

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* 1966 films 1966 comedy films French comedy films 1960s French-language films Films directed by Michel Deville Western Front of World War II films Cultural depictions of Charles de Gaulle 1960s French films Films scored by Maurice Le Roux French-language comedy films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub