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Le Caporal épinglé
FRANCE · 1962

Le Caporal épinglé

Jean Renoir
escape attempts prisoner of war French occupation class conflict human resilience
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Synopsis

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.

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