Jean-Pierre Cassel
Le caporal/The Corporal
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Among over a million French prisoners of war taken to work in camps in Germany in 1940 is the Corporal, a young man of good background who, finding the oppressiveness of Nazi Germany and the misery of prison life unbearable, makes repeated efforts to escape.
The Elusive Corporal. During World War II, a captured French corporal (Jean-Pierre Cassel) finds himself transferred to a prison in Germany, which he attempts to escape several times.
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- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Jean Renoir
- Comedy, Drama
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...
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.
Novel. Guy Lefranc. Writer. 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.
This film, "The Elusive Corporal", is one of his least well known. Released at the tail-end of his career it is typically compared to "La Grande Illusion", a seminal film released by Renoir a quarter century earlier.
The Elusive Corporal ★★★½ Le Caporal Epingle 1962 Set in a P.O.W. camp on the day France surrendered to Germany, this is the story of the French and Germans, complete with memories of a France that is no more.
