The Elusive Corporal

February. 18,1963      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jean-Pierre Cassel as  Caporal
Claude Brasseur as  Papa
Claude Rich as  Ballochet
Jacques Jouanneau as  Penche-à-gauche
Mario David as  Caruso
Guy Bedos as  Le bèque
Philippe Castelli as  le prisonnier électricien
O.E. Hasse as  Reisender
Sacha Briquet as  L'évadé grimé en vielle femme
Raymond Jourdan as  Hippolyte Dupieu

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