The Elusive Caporal

A Feature film of

Jean Renoir

Produced by

Les Films du Cyclope

Production year1961

French release23/05/1962

Runtime1 h 35 min

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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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Jean Renoir
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Executive Producer : Les Films du Cyclope

Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution

French distributors : Pathé Consortium Cinéma, Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique (CFDC)

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Adaptation : Guy Lefranc, Jean Renoir

Director of Photography : Georges Leclerc

Music Composer : Joseph Kosma

Assistant directors : Guy Lefranc, Marc Maurette

Editor : Renée Lichtig

Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean

Author of original work : Jacques Perret

Producers : Adry De Carbuccia, Roland Girard, Georges Glass

Assistant Operators : Robert Fraisse, Jean-Louis Picavet

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Type : Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Comedy
Themes : Friendship, Freedom
Production language : French
Production country : France (100.0%)

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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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