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The Elusive Corporal

1962 · 1h 30m · N/A Comedy, Drama, War
Directed by Jean Renoir , Guy Lefranc

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The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir'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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Tthe trace of philosophical implication makes it worth more than lightly passing through.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh

An ironic comedy of fake French heroics and real French heroism, the film is delicate and witty and features a delightful performance from Jean-Pierre Cassel.

Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh

This late addition to Renoir's impressively wide-ranging oeuvre is nevertheless suffused with the same warm and generous humanism as the great Regle du Jeu or Grande Illusion.

Time Out

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