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Le Caporal Epinglé (1962)

Director: Jean Renoir

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From Time Out Film Guide

A deceptively slight tale of the attempts by three Frenchmen to escape from a Nazi prison camp during World War II, this late addition to Renoir's impressively wide-ranging oeuvre is nevertheless suffused with the same warm and generous humanism as the great Règle du Jeu or Grande Illusion. Though the whole thing is played as a comedy, the scenes in the prison camp display Renoir's characteristically sharp eye for regional and class differences, even under the yoke of common suffering. The final parting on the bridge in Paris is a scene which will ring loud and true for anyone with the slightest sense of the value of freedom and friendship.

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Cast & crew

Director: Jean Renoir

Producer: JW Beyer

Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, OE Hasse, Jean Carmet, Mario David, Jacques Jouanneau full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 106 mins


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