The Elusive Caporal
Synopsis
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.
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Actors (16)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Cyclope
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distributors : Pathé Consortium Cinéma, Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique (CFDC)
Full credits (9)
- Assistant directors : Guy Lefranc, Marc Maurette
- Adaptation : Guy Lefranc, Jean Renoir
- Author of original work : Jacques Perret
- Producers : Adry De Carbuccia, Roland Girard, Georges Glass
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Director of Photography : Georges Leclerc
- Assistant Operators : Robert Fraisse, Jean-Louis Picavet
- Editor : Renée Lichtig
- Music Composer : Joseph Kosma
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : Friendship, Freedom
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1961
- French release : 23/05/1962
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 25631
- Visa issue date : 28/04/1962
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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The Elusive Corporal (French: Le Caporal épinglé) is a 1962 French 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. Renoir's friend and assistant director Guy Lefranc had also been a World War II prisoner of war and had developed the project for seven years.
The story serves as a companion piece to the director'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.
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