52 Ratings

The Elusive Corporal

Le caporal épinglé

France, 1962

Drama, Comedy

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, sometimes reaching the French border.

The Elusive Corporal Directed by Jean Renoir

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Awards & Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival

1962

BAFTA Awards

1963 | Nominee: Best Film from any Source

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Cast & Crew

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What are people saying?

Black Irish's rating of the film The Elusive Corporal
Black Irish

The closest Renoir ever came to a direct remake. Though to write it off so is to not only misunderstand the film, but his development between '37 and '62. Where the former encapsulates a bittersweet hope for fraternite among all men on the verge of a catastrophe, the latter swings wildly from burlesque humor to tragic resignation in a struggle for personal freedom in it's aftermath.
November 22, 2013 13:02
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Checkpoint Charlie's rating of the film The Elusive Corporal
Checkpoint Charlie

This is a decent piece late in Renoir's career in the same vein as prior works such as Grand Illusion and This Land is Mine, and he gives it sort of a neorealist feel like that of Rossellini without losing his own touch of course.
November 11, 2011 21:49
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FISCHER's rating of the film The Elusive Corporal
FISCHER

Les cinq tentatives d'évasion d'un caporal français prisonnier dans un stalag en Allemagne vers 1940 ..... UN CLASSIQUE ! www.cinefiches.com
April 07, 2017 16:33
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