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
Mario David
as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
Philippe Castelli
as 'L'électricien'
Cornelia Froboess
as Erika Schmidt
Lucien Raimbourg
as Station employee
François Darbon
as Peasant
Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Caporal
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
Sacha Briquet
as Escapee disguised as an old woman
Raymond Jourdan
as Hippolyte Dupieu
Claude Rich
as Ballochet
Gérard Darrieu
as Cross-eyed man
Guy Bedos
as The stuttering prisoner
Claude Brasseur
as Papa
