The Elusive Corporal

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.

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  Jean Renoir

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  Jean-Pierre Cassel
  Caporal
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  Claude Brasseur
  Papa
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  Claude Rich
  Ballochet
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  Jacques Jouanneau
  Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
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  Mario David
  'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
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  Jean Carmet
  Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
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  Philippe Castelli
  'L'électricien'
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  Guy Bedos
  The stuttering prisoner
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  O.E. Hasse
  Drunk traveler on the train
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  Cornelia Froboess
  Erika Schmidt
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  Sacha Briquet
  Escapee disguised as an old woman
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  Raymond Jourdan
  Hippolyte Dupieu
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  Gérard Darrieu
  Cross-eyed man
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  Lucien Raimbourg
  Station employee
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  François Darbon
  Peasant
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  Helmut Janatsch
  Otto, Commander of the Stalag