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All is not well at ‘Café René’. It’s 1942 in France and the ‘conquering heroes’ have disrupted the peaceful village of Nouvien to such an extent that René Artois, our genial host, doesn’t know which way to turn. Ever since the invasion, he has been forced to be nice to the occupying forces and at the same time try to keep up his standing as a patriot. René juggles to keep the peace, and fails. An incompetent cavalcade of cockatoo salesmen, gendarmes and an Italian war hero combine with a powerplay between the commandant and the sinister Gestapo officer, aided by sexy Helga. Quick-thinking deceptions, a web of increasingly hilarious and improbable subterfuge culminates in René’s last desperate chance of saving his skin by jumping out of his kitchen frying pan, and in to The Fuehrer.