The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Le Caporal épinglé
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.
- Date of release
- 1962-05-23
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (37)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Director
- Jean Renoir
Casting
- 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
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