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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.

1962 |1h 45m |  Comedy, Drama, War

Cast

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Jean-Pierre Cassel

Caporal

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Claude Brasseur

Papa

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Claude Rich

Ballochet

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Jacques Jouanneau

Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

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Mario David

'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

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Jean Carmet

Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

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Philippe Castelli

'L'électricien'

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Guy Bedos

The stuttering prisoner

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O.E. Hasse

Drunk traveler on the train

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Cornelia Froboess

Erika Schmidt

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Sacha Briquet

Escapee disguised as an old woman

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Raymond Jourdan

Hippolyte Dupieu

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Gérard Darrieu

Cross-eyed man

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Lucien Raimbourg

Station employee

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François Darbon

Peasant

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Status

Released

Language

German, French

Budget

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Revenue

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