Reference Film: VIII - THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF APOCALYPSE by Vincente Minnelli

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Runtime: 153 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Colour: Colour (Metrocolour)
Sound Mix: 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Credited Cast:
Glenn Ford as Julio Desnoyers
Ingrid Thulin as Marguerite Laurier
Charles Boyer as Marcelo Desnoyers
Lee J. Cobb as Julio Madariaga
Paul Lukas as Karl von Hartrott
Yvette Mimieux as Chi Chi Desnoyers
Karlheinz Böhm as Heinrich von Hartrott (as Karl Boehm)
Paul Henreid as Etienne Laurier
Harriet E. MacGibbon as Dona Luisa Desnoyers
Kathryn Givney as Elena von Hartrott

Summary
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France immigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family feeling. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS. During WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France. Heinrich would come and go. Julio was a playboy. Chichi joined the resistance and was eventually tortured to death by Gestapo. Julio has a relation to a woman whose husband is a POW, and who will after release become a district leader within the resistance movement. Julio eventually feels that it is his duty to fight the Nazis. With a firm reputation as a superficial playboy, he can attend the nightclub favoured by German officers and gather much important information. Finally he and another partisan (posing as his chauffeur) accept a highly important suicidal task involving a courtesy call to Heinrich.