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The Elusive Corporal

1962

1h 45m

6.29

Comedy, Drama, War

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The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Caporal

Claude Brasseur

Papa

Claude Rich

Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau

Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

Mario David

'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Jean Carmet

Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli

'L'électricien'

Guy Bedos

The stuttering prisoner

O.E. Hasse

Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess

Erika Schmidt

Sacha Briquet

Escapee disguised as an old woman

Raymond Jourdan

Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu

Cross-eyed man

Lucien Raimbourg

Station employee

François Darbon

Peasant

Helmut Janatsch

Otto, Commander of the Stalag

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