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The Elusive Corporal

"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."

Cast

19162

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Caporal

1958

Claude Brasseur

as Papa

24903

Claude Rich

as Ballochet

70142

Jacques Jouanneau

as Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

28189

Mario David

as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

24540

Jean Carmet

as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

278368

Philippe Castelli

as 'L'électricien'

25179

Guy Bedos

as The stuttering prisoner

38244

O.E. Hasse

as Drunk traveler on the train

1857

Cornelia Froboess

as Erika Schmidt

24544

Sacha Briquet

as Escapee disguised as an old woman

25152

Raymond Jourdan

as Hippolyte Dupieu

15402

Gérard Darrieu

as Cross-eyed man

34619

Lucien Raimbourg

as Station employee

3518

François Darbon

as Peasant

1071098

Helmut Janatsch

as Otto, Commander of the Stalag

Crew

11528

Jean Renoir

Director

29678

Georges Leclerc

Director of Photography

1121232

Renée Lichtig

Editor

11528

Jean Renoir

Writer

238767

Guy Lefranc

Writer

1539854

Jacques Perret

Novel

11555

Joseph Kosma

Original Music Composer

4970977

Larry Shaw

Still Photographer