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Opération Amsterdam

Titre original : Operation Amsterdam
  • 1959
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  • 1h 44min
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Peter Finch and Eva Bartok in Opération Amsterdam (1959)
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplie... Tout lireWhen Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.

  • Réalisation
    • Michael McCarthy
  • Scénario
    • Michael McCarthy
    • John Eldridge
    • David E. Walker
  • Casting principal
    • Peter Finch
    • Eva Bartok
    • Tony Britton
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
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    • Réalisation
      • Michael McCarthy
    • Scénario
      • Michael McCarthy
      • John Eldridge
      • David E. Walker
    • Casting principal
      • Peter Finch
      • Eva Bartok
      • Tony Britton
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    • 2avis des critiques
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    Peter Finch
    Peter Finch
    • Jan Smit
    Eva Bartok
    Eva Bartok
    • Anna
    Tony Britton
    Tony Britton
    • Major Dillon
    Alexander Knox
    Alexander Knox
    • Walter Keyser
    Malcolm Keen
    Malcolm Keen
    • Johan Smit
    Tim Turner
    Tim Turner
    • Dutch Lieutenant
    John Horsley
    John Horsley
    • Commander Bowerman
    Melvyn Hayes
    Melvyn Hayes
    • Willem
    Christopher Rhodes
    Christopher Rhodes
    • Alex
    Alfred Burke
    Alfred Burke
    • Dealer
    Carl Jaffe
    Carl Jaffe
    • Diamond Merchant
    • (as Carl Jaffé)
    Keith Pyott
    Keith Pyott
    • Diamond Merchant
    Oscar Quitak
    • Diamond Merchant
    George Pravda
    George Pravda
    • Portmaster
    Arnold Marlé
      Peter Swanwick
      Peter Swanwick
      • Peter
      John Bailey
      John Bailey
      • Officer
      Lex Goudsmit
      • Boatman
      • Réalisation
        • Michael McCarthy
      • Scénario
        • Michael McCarthy
        • John Eldridge
        • David E. Walker
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      7watching_movies

      Watch it again Rickee!

      The 'flaws' noted above are not really that serious. Firstly, yes the sudden appearance of Willem suggested a cut scene, a frequent occurrence in many movies, owing to pacing and duration considerations - could have been better handled, but it was explained briefly. Secondly, the various groups of Dutch soldiers, some fighting each other, was fully explained several times in the dialogue - the city has been infiltrated with German fifth columnists, and nobody is sure who is friend or foe! In the battle scene by the canal the late arrivals have been sent by the man at the government department, to help the 'good guys'. Thirdly, you are correct that the OFFICIAL Dutch resistance was not yet organised, but the resistance fighters in the story are early volunteers who are trying to hamper the German occupation of Amsterdam, and will no doubt form the nucleus of the resistance movement that would soon follow. So, you see, not really serious flaws at all!
      8blanche-2

      loved it

      "Operation Amsterdam" from 1959 stars Peter Finch, Alexander Knox, Tony Britton and Eva Bartok in a Rank film based on a true incident. In 1940, there was a British move to get industrial diamonds out of Holland so that the Germans could not make use of them.

      A British Major (Britton) travels to England with two diamond experts (Knox and Finch) to persuade diamond merchants in Amsterdam to give over their industrial diamonds, which would be brought to England.

      There is danger all around them, with soldiers, shootings, and bombings everywhere. At a harbor, a young woman, Anna (Eva Bartok) tries to drive into the water to commit suicide after her fiancée's parents are killed, as she blames herself for inadvertently causing their death. The men are able to stop her and make use of her car, and her knowledge of Amsterdam, all the while not sure if they can even trust her. No one, in fact, can trust anyone, since German parachuters are disguised as Dutch soldiers.

      Jan (Finch's) father, who is a diamond merchant in Amsterdam, appeals to his circle to relinquish their stashes so that the major and the men can bring them to a destroyer on which Churchill is allowing them to travel. The time is short -- will the merchants cooperate? Or have they come a long way for not very much? I found this film very exciting and very moving. The atmosphere was tense throughout. Peter Finch gives a wonderful performance as Jan, and he was so handsome and had good chemistry with the beautiful, mysterious Anna of Bartok. Alexander Knox seemed to be an afterthought, not given much to do.

      Knowing what the Dutch suffered during the war made this an emotional experience watching the courage of the people who helped the men along the way. This wasn't the officially formed resistance, but an earlier group who didn't want the Nazis in Holland and probably were the core people when the official Resistance began.

      Highly recommended. I think the story is compelling enough to overcome editing criticisms, the time of release criticisms and the like. Powerful stories are timeless.
      7bkoganbing

      Diamonds for England

      Operation Amsterdam is a no frills war thriller about a special mission to the Netherlands. British major Tony Britton is sent there accompanied by a pair of Dutch diamond merchants, Peter Finch and Alexander Knox. Their mission is to clean out as many industrial diamonds as they can from the diamond brokers which the city is known for.

      Those industrial black diamonds ain't pretty and don't sparkle. But they are the hardest things on planet earth. Drill bits to shape metal are invaluable in an industrial economy, all the more so on a war footing. The Nazis could really use them and they are hours away from occupying the Low Countries.

      This one moves at a nice clip with grainy black and white cinematography to demonstrate the coming darkness to fall on the Netherlands and Europe.

      Along the way the men of the mission save Eva Bartok from suicide and she proves invaluable. Her own wartime experiences gave her depth to her role that was unique. No time for romance, but Finch is clearly interested and might be looking her up after the war assuming both survive.

      No super heroics, just some men, Dutch and British doing a job that needed to be done in Operation Amsterdam.
      8dj_kennett

      Well made wartime action story

      Operation Amsterdam is a pleasant surprise. It has both a strong story and some unusual cinematic touches to keep the viewer interested.

      The story of the British secret service agents who are sent to Amsterdam to recover industrial diamonds before the German invasion is a familiar one, and their eventual safe escape is predictable enough.

      What interested me was the atmosphere of fear and bleakness that the producers manage to convey. The empty streets, in bright sunlight; the columns of fleeing people; the confusion of not knowing who are enemies or friends, makes for a better than average effects.

      Added to this a score made only with drums, and some very abrupt editing that is almost painful to watch, makes this a worthwhile watch.
      Piafredux

      Nicely Surprising Film

      'Operation Amsterdam' is one that had gotten away from me. I thought I'd seen just about every WWII movie that ever was. So when I came across it on DVD, I felt nicely piqued.

      And when I watched it, I felt nicely surprised, decently entertained.

      The plot isn't terribly exciting, the script could have benefitted from a wee bit of polishing, but the production works well because tension is strung taut and relaxed, and strung taut and relaxed again and again throughout the film.

      Peter Finch and Alexander Knox are two Dutch diamond experts who sail in a British destroyer with an English secret agent: destination Amsterdam. Mission: come out, before the Nazis surround or take the city, with the Dutch inventory of industrial diamonds. Object: deprive Nazi war industry of the tool-cutting, metal-shaping worth of those diamonds.

      In the haunting desertion of orderly Amsterdam streets, the intrepid trio meets with Dutch diamond merchants, scampers in and out of the clutches of Dutch fifth columnists, mucks in with Dutch resistance fighters, and warily accepts guidance throughout from a Dutchwoman whom they cannot, at first, trust (played with restrained charm by Eva Bartok). Some of the diamond merchants are, as they've always been in Amsterdam, Jews. The point is made about Nazi persecution of Jews and about the dilemmas many Jews faced when the Nazis occupied their countries, but in 'Operation Amsterdam' the points are made unsentimentally - which highlights the stark panic, fear, and despair many Jews felt in that baleful time and circumstance. Indeed, throughout the film characters are beset by choices, choices they must make because time, as the story development lets us know clearly, is running out for everybody in the Netherlands.

      It's the storytelling and the actors' understatement - nothing is James Bondish about these ordinary characters finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances - that make the story absorbing, believable. Abetted by the unsettling counterpoint between carnivalesque Dutch pierement (organ grinders) music - happy music playing in a bleak city, over throngs of departing refugees, during the agents' tense search for and gathering of the diamonds - and by terse snare drumming, the story keeps ratcheting up its grip on the viewer, holding tight tempo with the agents' mission and their dedication to accomplishing it.

      The only serious flaw in the film's visuals owes to most of the deserted street shots having to be filmed immediately after dawn (else Amsterdam's population would be thronging its thoroughfares). This yields a bit of a crazy quilt mix of shots having long shadows intercut with shots having midday, short shadows - supposedly happening in the same instant. Otherwise, the camerawork and editing jive nicely with the unfolding of the plot.

      Also ramping up the tension is the script's bareness: one really must think a lot - sometimes too much - about what's going on, about what's coming next, but the need to think that way lends the viewer a heightened sense of uncertainty, danger, and dread. It also helps that the scriptwriter avoided the worst cliches of the genre: the scenes of Eva Bartok and Peter Finch are treated as bare-bones, wartime heartbreak rather than as apocryphal "we fell in love in battle" nonsense.

      Generally, props are first-rate, except for Dutch soldiers and resistance fighters toting German MP-40 machine pistols which were in short enough supply in the 1940 Wehrmacht, and for a few 1950's-era military trucks. The other weaponry is all true to period: Dutch army M1895 Mannlicher rifles, Luger pistols, period revolvers and such. Also, Dutch uniforms and personal gear are precisely from the story's 1940 time-frame. The only other minor quibble is one found in quite a few late-50's and 1960's WWII films: a four-seater Messerschmitt Bf.108 touring aeroplane stands in for the later, design-derivative Bf.109 fighter (See 'Von Ryan's Express', and 'The Longest Day' for more examples of this substitution - which was necessary since there were then no restored, flyable Bf.109E aircraft.).

      'Operation Amsterdam' hasn't dated nearly as badly as have so many other WWII films made in the twenty years following the war because it sticks to its story, because it tells its story without frills, excursions into moralizing, or distracting subplots. Though it didn't benefit from a larger budget, as did 'The Counterfeit Traitor' which was filmed in the same era, 'Operation Amsterdam' delivers the goods.

      Summed up: Agents voyage to Amsterdam to deprive Nazis of diamonds, return to us with a minor gem of a movie.

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      • Anecdotes
        With the passing of Tony Britton in December 2019, actor Melvyn Hayes, who played Willem, is now the sole surviving cast member.
      • Gaffes
        When the British agents first arrive, German airplanes try to bomb them before they can reach the shore. A line of the special effects charges are clarly seen bobbing in the water before they detonate.
      • Crédits fous
        The producers are most grateful for the valuable co-operation of the Royal Netherlands navy and the civic authorities of Amsterdam and Ymuiden.

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      Détails

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      • Date de sortie
        • 29 juillet 1959 (France)
      • Pays d’origine
        • Royaume-Uni
      • Langue
        • Anglais
      • Aussi connu sous le nom de
        • Operation Amsterdam
      • Lieux de tournage
        • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Pays-Bas
      • Société de production
        • Maurice Cowan Productions
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      • Durée
        • 1 heure et 44 minutes
      • Couleur
        • Black and White
      • Rapport de forme
        • 1.66 : 1

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