The Elusive Corporal (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.
Cast
Caporal
Papa
Escapee disguised as an old woman
Hippolyte Dupieu
Cross-eyed man
Station employee
Peasant
Otto, Commander of the Stalag
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
Crew
Director
Novel
Writer
Writer
Director of Photography
Editor
Original Music Composer
Still Photographer