Movie: The Elusive Corporal

Top 10 Billed Cast

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

Mario David
Mario David

'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet

Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli
Philippe Castelli

'L'électricien'

Guy Bedos
Guy Bedos

The stuttering prisoner

O.E. Hasse
O.E. Hasse

Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess
Cornelia Froboess

Erika Schmidt

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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.

  • Release Date

    1962-05-23

  • Average

    6.286

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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