Grand Illusion (1937)1h54
Drama · History · War
Director Jean Renoir (7.4 avg)
Also directed The Rules of the Game, La Bête Humaine, A Day in the Country, and 36 more
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.
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Cast
Jean Gabin
Dita Parlo
Pierre Fresnay
Erich von Stroheim
Julien Carette
Georges Péclet- Werner Florian
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