The Elusive Corporal
- Comedy
- Drama
- War
An upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the border.
- Directed by
- Jean Renoir
- Written by
- Jean Renoir, Guy Lefranc
- Based on
- Jacques Perret
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Claude Brasseur
- Claude Rich
- Jacques Jouanneau
- Mario David
- Jean Carmet
- Philippe Castelli
- Guy Bedos
- O.E. Hasse
- Cornelia Froboess
- Sacha Briquet
- Raymond Jourdan
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