The Elusive Corporal

During World War II, a captured French corporal (Jean-Pierre Cassel) finds himself transferred to a prison in Germany, which he attempts to escape several times. After one such failure, he is reunited with his friend Ballochet (Claude Rich), who in claiming to be a translator, not a soldier, has been treated much better by the Germans. Though tempted to give up on escaping, the corporal finds his resolve renewed by a German dentist's daughter, who has come to love him for his resilience.