The Elusive Corporal

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.

• Jean RenoirDirector
• Guy LefrancWriter
• Jean RenoirWriter
• Joseph KosmaOriginal Music Composer

• Jean-Pierre CasselCaporal
• Claude BrasseurPapa
• Claude RichBallochet
• Jacques JouanneauÉmile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
• Mario David'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
• Jean CarmetGuillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
• Philippe Castelli'L'électricien'
• Guy BedosThe stuttering prisoner
• O.E. HasseDrunk traveler on the train
• Cornelia FroboessErika Schmidt
• Sacha BriquetEscapee disguised as an old woman
• Raymond JourdanHippolyte Dupieu