The Elusive Corporal

Le caporal épinglé, feature film, 1962

DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir

The Elusive Corporal

CAST:
Jean-Pierre Cassel (kaplar),
Claude Brasseur,
Claude Rich (Ballochet),
Jacques Jouanneau,
Raymond Jourdan

SCRIPT:
Guy Lefranc,
Jean Renoir (prema romanu Jacquesa Perreta)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Georges Leclerc

Synopsis:
During the German invasion of France in 1940, a corporal gets caught and taken to a prison camp. He plans to escape with two friends but their attempt fails. He is not discouraged even when he finds out that one of his comrades has lost interest. Moreover, along the way he seduces the daughter of a German dentist...

35 mm, b/w, 90 min