The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal (1962)

Comedy Drama War

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.

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  • Release Date: 1962-05-23
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Director: Jean Renoir

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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