The Vanishing Corporal

Directed by Jean Renoir
TV-PG
23 May 1962    1h 45mComedy, Drama,
7.089%86%6.4
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-Pierre CasselCaporal
  • Claude BrasseurPapa
  • Claude RichBallochet
  • Jacques JouanneauÉmile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter
  • Mario David'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent
  • Jean CarmetGuillaume aka 'Le Fermier'
  • Philippe Castelli'L'électricien'
  • Guy BedosThe stuttering prisoner
  • O.E. HasseDrunk traveler on the train
  • Cornelia FroboessErika Schmidt
  • Sacha BriquetEscapee disguised as an old woman
  • Raymond JourdanHippolyte Dupieu
  • Gérard DarrieuCross-eyed man
  • Lucien RaimbourgStation employee
  • François DarbonPeasant
  • Helmut JanatschOtto, Commander of the Stalag
  • Jean RenoirDirector / Writer
  • Jacques PerretNovel
  • Guy LefrancWriter
  • Georges LeclercDirector Of Photography

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