Genres
Duration
105 min
Director
Jean Renoir
Rating
6.3
Release Date
May 23, 1962
The Elusive Corporal
Original title: Le Caporal épinglé
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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.
The Elusive Corporal cast
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
Character:
Caporal
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Claude Brasseur
Character:
Papa
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Claude Rich
Character:
Ballochet
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Jacques Jouanneau
Character:
Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
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Mario David
Character:
'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
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Jean Carmet
Character:
Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
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Philippe Castelli
Character:
'L'électricien'
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Guy Bedos
Character:
The stuttering prisoner
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O.E. Hasse
Character:
Drunk traveler on the train
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Cornelia Froboess
Character:
Erika Schmidt
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Sacha Briquet
Character:
Escapee disguised as an old woman
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Raymond Jourdan
Character:
Hippolyte Dupieu
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Gérard Darrieu
Character:
Cross-eyed man
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Lucien Raimbourg
Character:
Station employee
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François Darbon
Character:
Peasant
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Helmut Janatsch
Character:
Otto, Commander of the Stalag
