The Elusive Corporal

Year: 1962

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: French

Director: Jean Renoir

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Functioning as a thematic companion to Renoir’s 1937 classic Grand Illusion, the film gathers a cross‑section of French men from varied social backgrounds and follows a solitary corporal whose relentless, almost Sisyphean struggle to escape a German POW camp underscores the futility of resistance and the bonds forged under captivity.

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