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Film / 1962
The Elusive Corporal
Directed by
Jean Renoir
An upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the border.
The story
An upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the border.
Cast
Jean-Pierre CasselCaporal
Claude BrasseurPapa
Claude RichBallochet
Jacques JouanneauÉmile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
Mario David'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
Jean CarmetGuillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
Philippe Castelli'L'électricien'
Guy BedosThe stuttering prisoner
O.E. HasseDrunk traveler on the train
Cornelia FroboessErika Schmidt
Sacha BriquetEscapee disguised as an old woman
Raymond JourdanHippolyte Dupieu
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