The Elusive Corporal

*6.4

Status

Released

Production

Les Films du Cyclope

Aired

1962-05-23

The Elusive Corporal

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.