The Elusive Corporal

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.

The Elusive Corporal is a 1962 drama war movie directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, O.E. Hasse, Claude Brasseur. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.0/10 from 1,142 votes and runs 1h 45m.