The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal

90 mins | Drama, Comedy, War | May 23, 1962

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.

The Elusive Corporal

90 mins | Drama, Comedy, War | May 23, 1962

The Elusive Corporal
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Les Films du Cyclope
Original title Le Caporal épinglé
Directors Jean Renoir
Writers Jacques Perret, Guy Lefranc, Jean Renoir

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Caporal

Claude Brasseur

as Papa

Claude Rich

as Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau

as Penche-à-gauche

Mario David

as Caruso

Guy Bedos

as Le bèque

Philippe Castelli

as le prisonnier électricien

O.E. Hasse

as Reisender

Cornelia Froboess

as Erika Schmidt

Sacha Briquet

as L'évadé grimé en vielle femme

Raymond Jourdan

as Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu

as L'homme qui louche

Lucien Raimbourg

as L'employé de la gare

François Darbon

as Un paysan

Elisabeth Stiepel

as Serveuse au buffet de la gare

Helmut Janatsch

as Otto, Commandant du Stalag

Jean Carmet

as Guillaume