The Elusive Corporal
Le Caporal épinglé
1962, Film, 105 min, Comedy, Drama, War, French, France, MoviePedia score 65
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
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as The Corporal
- Claude Brasseur as 'Pop'
- O.E. Hasse as Le voyageur ivre dans le train
- Claude Rich as Ballochet
- Jacques Jouanneau as Penche-à-gauche
- Sacha Briquet as L'évadé grimé en vielle femme
- Raymond Jourdan as Hippolyte Dupieu
- Guy Bedos as Le prisonnier qui bégaye
- Philippe Castelli as Le prisonnier électricien
- Gérard Darrieu as The cross-eyed man
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