The Elusive Corporal
– The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing toge..
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir'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.
23 May 1962
French, German
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Jean Renoir
Jacques Perret (novel), Jean Renoir (adaptation), Guy Lefranc (adaptation), Jean Renoir (dialogue)
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. 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 French border.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination.