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The Elusive Corporal (1962)

6.4 | May 23, 1962 (FR) | Comedy, Drama, War | 01:45

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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Director, Writer
Writer
Still Photographer
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography

Cast

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Claude Rich
Ballochet
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Jacques Jouanneau
Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
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Mario David
'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
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Jean Carmet
Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
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Philippe Castelli
'L'électricien'
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Guy Bedos
The stuttering prisoner
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O.E. Hasse
Drunk traveler on the train
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Cornelia Froboess
Erika Schmidt