The Elusive Corporal
The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal

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1962
1h 45m
6.4(32 votes)
Comedy
Drama
War

Overview

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.

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16 members
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Jean-Pierre Cassel

Caporal

Jean-Pierre Cassel
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Claude Brasseur

Papa

Claude Brasseur
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Claude Rich

Ballochet

Claude Rich
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Jacques Jouanneau

Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

Jacques Jouanneau
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Mario David

'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Mario David
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Jean Carmet

Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Jean Carmet
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Philippe Castelli

'L'électricien'

Philippe Castelli
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Guy Bedos

The stuttering prisoner

Guy Bedos
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O.E. Hasse

Drunk traveler on the train

O.E. Hasse
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Cornelia Froboess

Erika Schmidt

Cornelia Froboess
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Sacha Briquet

Escapee disguised as an old woman

Sacha Briquet
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Raymond Jourdan

Hippolyte Dupieu

Raymond Jourdan
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Gérard Darrieu

Cross-eyed man

Gérard Darrieu
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Lucien Raimbourg

Station employee

Lucien Raimbourg
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François Darbon

Peasant

François Darbon
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Helmut Janatsch

Otto, Commander of the Stalag

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