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.
Genre : ComedyDramaWar
Runtime : 105 mins
Release Date : 1962-05-23
(Caporal)
(Papa)
(Ballochet)
(Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter)
('Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent)
(Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier')
('L'électricien')
(The stuttering prisoner)
(Drunk traveler on the train)
(Erika Schmidt)
(Escapee disguised as an old woman)
(Hippolyte Dupieu)
(Cross-eyed man)
(Station employee)
(Peasant)
(Otto, Commander of the Stalag)