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The Elusive Corporal

6.4 105 mins Comedy   Drama   War   1962
Les Films du Cyclope   Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma  
Director(s): Jean Renoir

Release Date: 23 Wed, May 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.

Casts of The Elusive Corporal

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Caporal

Claude Brasseur

as Papa

Claude Rich

as Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau

as Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

Mario David

as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Jean Carmet

as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli

as 'L'électricien'

Guy Bedos

as The stuttering prisoner

O.E. Hasse

as Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess

as Erika Schmidt

Sacha Briquet

as Escapee disguised as an old woman

Raymond Jourdan

as Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu

as Cross-eyed man

Lucien Raimbourg

as Station employee

François Darbon

as Peasant

Helmut Janatsch

as Otto, Commander of the Stalag

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