1962 · 105 min · Comedy, Drama, War
An upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. 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 border.
Directed by Jean Renoir. Starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau and Mario David.
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