The Elusive Corporal

The Elusive Corporal (French: Le Caporal épinglé) is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. Renoir shot his film in Austria in 1961 from Jacques Perret's book based on his own prisoner of war experiences. Renoir's friend and assistant director Guy Lefranc had also been a World War II prisoner of war and had developed the project for seven years.

Contents

• Cast
• Production
• References

The story serves as a companion piece to the director'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.

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel as Le caporal / The Corporal

Claude Brasseur as 'Papa' / 'Pop'

O. E. Hasse as Le voyageur ivre dans le train

Claude Rich as Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau as Penche-à-gauche

Sacha Briquet as L'évadé grimé en vielle femme

Raymond Jourdan as Hippolyte Dupieu

Guy Bedos as Le prisonnier qui bégaye

Philippe Castelli as Le prisonnier électricien

Gérard Darrieu as L'homme qui louche / The cross-eyed man

Lucien Raimbourg as L'employé de la gare

François Darbon as Un paysan / The last man

Cornelia Froboess as Erika Schmidt (as Conny Froboess)

Production

Guy Lefranc was assistant director on the film.