The Elusive Corporal
Jean Renoir1962-05-23
6.3
105 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Jean-Pierre Cassel | Caporal | Unowned |
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Claude Brasseur | Papa | Unowned |
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Claude Rich | Ballochet | Unowned |
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Jacques Jouanneau | Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter | Unowned |
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Mario David | 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent | Unowned |
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Jean Carmet | Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier' | Unowned |
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Philippe Castelli | 'L'électricien' | Unowned |
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Guy Bedos | The stuttering prisoner | Unowned |
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O.E. Hasse | Drunk traveler on the train | Unowned |
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Cornelia Froboess | Erika Schmidt | Unowned |
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Sacha Briquet | Escapee disguised as an old woman | Unowned |
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Raymond Jourdan | Hippolyte Dupieu | Unowned |
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Gérard Darrieu | Cross-eyed man | Unowned |
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Lucien Raimbourg | Station employee | Unowned |
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François Darbon | Peasant | Unowned |
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Helmut Janatsch | Otto, Commander of the Stalag | Unowned |