The Elusive Corporal

Original title: Le Caporal épinglé

Duration: 105 min

Release date: 1962-05-23

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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.

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Le Caporal épinglé

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Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Claude Brasseur

Claude Brasseur

Jacques Jouanneau

Jacques Jouanneau

as Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli

Philippe Castelli

as 'L'électricien'

as The stuttering prisoner

as Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess

Cornelia Froboess

as Erika Schmidt

as Escapee disguised as an old woman

Raymond Jourdan

Raymond Jourdan

as Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu

as Cross-eyed man

Lucien Raimbourg

Lucien Raimbourg

as Station employee

François Darbon

François Darbon

Helmut Janatsch

Helmut Janatsch

as Otto, Commander of the Stalag

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Georges Leclerc

Georges Leclerc

Director of Photography

Original Music Composer

Still Photographer

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