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The Elusive Corporal
Title
The Elusive Corporal / RetroFilm Archive.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : RetroFilm Archive, [1962]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©1962
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 45 min., 20 sec)) : sound.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally released by RetroFilm Archive, 1962.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 07, 2023.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. 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 French border. Also released as Le caporal épinglé. Nominated for Best Film From Any Source, BAFTA Awards, 1963. Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival, 1962. Nominated for Best Film, Cahiers du Cinema, 1962. Nominated for Best Film, Faro Island Film Festival, 1962. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jean Renoir. France.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2023
Audience
9 - 12, Academic/AP
A V Quality
Videorecording number
288306 Infobase
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Infobase, film distributor.
RetroFilm Archive (Firm)
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