Grand Illusion
La grande illusion
1937, Film, 113 min, Drama, War, French, France, MoviePedia score 80
A Great Drama of Human Emotions
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Directed by Jean Renoir
Cast
- Jean Gabin as Le lieutenant Maréchal
- Dita Parlo as Elsa
- Pierre Fresnay as Le captaine de Boeldieu
- Erich von Stroheim as Le captaine von Rauffenstein
- Julien Carette as Cartier - l'acteur
- Georges Péclet as Le serrurier
- Werner Florian as Le sergent Arthur
- Jean Dasté as L'instituteur
- Sylvain Itkine as Le lieutenant Demolder
- Gaston Modot as L'ingénieur
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