The Elusive Corporal

1h 45m

Comedy Drama War

6.4

An upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the border.

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Claude Brasseur

Jacques Jouanneau

Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli

'L'électricien'

The stuttering prisoner

Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess

Escapee disguised as an old woman

Raymond Jourdan

Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu

Lucien Raimbourg

Station employee

François Darbon

Helmut Janatsch

Otto, Commander of the Stalag

Crew

Director, Writer

Georges Leclerc

Director of Photography

Original Music Composer

Still Photographer