

The Elusive Corporal
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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
Caporal

Claude Brasseur
Papa

Claude Rich
Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau
Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

Mario David
'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Jean Carmet
Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli
'L'électricien'

Guy Bedos
The stuttering prisoner

O.E. Hasse
Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess
Erika Schmidt

Sacha Briquet
Escapee disguised as an old woman

Raymond Jourdan
Hippolyte Dupieu
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