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The Elusive Corporal

6.419621h 45mMovieComedyDramaWar

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…

DirectorJean Renoir
WritersJean Renoir·Guy Lefranc

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Cast · Directed by Jean Renoir

JCJean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Caporal
CBClaude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur
Papa
CRClaude Rich
Claude Rich
Ballochet
JJJacques Jouanneau
Jacques Jouanneau
Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
MDMario David
Mario David
'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
JCJean Carmet
Jean Carmet
Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
PCPhilippe Castelli
Philippe Castelli
'L'électricien'
GBGuy Bedos
Guy Bedos
The stuttering prisoner
OHO.E. Hasse
O.E. Hasse
Drunk traveler on the train
CFCornelia Froboess
Cornelia Froboess
Erika Schmidt
SBSacha Briquet
Sacha Briquet
Escapee disguised as an old woman
RJRaymond Jourdan
Raymond Jourdan
Hippolyte Dupieu

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