The Elusive Corporal
Jean Renoir1962-05-23
6.4
105 min
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.
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 |