The Elusive Corporal
Le Caporal épinglé
Rating: 6.4 · 1962 · Comedy, Drama, War · France · 1 ч 45 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Original title
- Le Caporal épinglé
- Year
- 1962
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1 ч 45 мин
- TMDB
- 6.4
- IMDb
- 6.4
Director
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
- Gérard Darrieu — Cross-eyed man
- Lucien Raimbourg — Station employee
- François Darbon — Peasant
- Helmut Janatsch — Otto, Commander of the Stalag