The Elusive Corporal
Overview
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.
Release Date
23 May 1962
105 minutes
Director
Main Cast
Caporal
Papa
Ballochet
Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
'L'électricien'
The stuttering prisoner
Drunk traveler on the train
Erika Schmidt
Escapee disguised as an old woman
Hippolyte Dupieu