
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.

as Caporal

as Papa

as Ballochet

as Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

as 'L'électricien'

as The stuttering prisoner

as Drunk traveler on the train

as Erika Schmidt

as Escapee disguised as an old woman

as Hippolyte Dupieu

as Cross-eyed man

as Station employee

as Peasant

as Otto, Commander of the Stalag