The Elusive Corporal
- Comedy
- Drama
- War
5/23/1962
105
Storyline
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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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
- Gérard DarrieuCross-eyed man
- Lucien RaimbourgStation employee
- François DarbonPeasant
- Helmut JanatschOtto, Commander of the Stalag