The Elusive Corporal
Le Caporal épinglé
Release: 1962-05-23
·Runtime: 105m
·★ 6.4
Comedy
Drama
War
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Les Films du Cyclope
Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma
Cast
Gérard Darrieu
as Cross-eyed man
Lucien Raimbourg
as Station employee
Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Caporal
Philippe Castelli
as 'L'électricien'
Raymond Jourdan
as Hippolyte Dupieu
Mario David
as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
François Darbon
as Peasant
Guy Bedos
as The stuttering prisoner
Cornelia Froboess
as Erika Schmidt
Sacha Briquet
as Escapee disguised as an old woman
Claude Brasseur
as Papa
Claude Rich
as Ballochet
Jacques Jouanneau
as Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
Jean Carmet
as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
O.E. Hasse
as Drunk traveler on the train
