The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal

6.3

May 23 1962

2h 45m

Comedy, Drama, War

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.

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Caporal

Claude Brasseur

Claude Brasseur

Papa

Claude Rich

Claude Rich

Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau

Jacques Jouanneau

Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter