The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
37 audience votes
Key crew
- Jean RenoirDirector
- Jean RenoirWriter
- Guy LefrancWriter
- Joseph KosmaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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