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The Elusive Corporal

63 %|May 23, 1962|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.

Featured Crew

Jean Renoir
Director
Georges Leclerc
Director of Photography
Renée Lichtig
Editor
Jean Renoir
Writer
Guy Lefranc
Writer
Jacques Perret
Novel
Joseph Kosma
Original Music Composer
Larry Shaw
Still Photographer

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
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Sacha Briquet
Escapee disguised as an old woman
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Raymond Jourdan
Hippolyte Dupieu
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Gérard Darrieu
Cross-eyed man
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Lucien Raimbourg
Station employee
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Helmut Janatsch
Otto, Commander of the Stalag