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The Elusive Corporal

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Calorie Rating: 126
Released: 1962-05-23
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Studios: Les Films du Cyclope, Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma,


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.

Director / Directors

Jean Renoir
Director


Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Character: Caporal
Claude Brasseur
Character: Papa
Claude Rich
Character: Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau
Character: Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
Mario David
Character: 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
Jean Carmet
Character: Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli
Character: 'L'électricien'
Guy Bedos
Character: The stuttering prisoner
O.E. Hasse
Character: Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess
Character: Erika Schmidt
Sacha Briquet
Character: Escapee disguised as an old woman
Raymond Jourdan
Character: Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu
Character: Cross-eyed man
Lucien Raimbourg
Character: Station employee
François Darbon
Character: Peasant

Helmut Janatsch
Character: Otto, Commander of the Stalag


Production and Crew


Georges Leclerc
Director of Photography
Joseph Kosma
Original Music Composer

Larry Shaw
Still Photographer