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Grand Illusion

  • June 1937
  • 1hr

    54mins

  • Drama
  • History
  • War
  • Directed by

    Jean Renoir,

    Starring

    Jean Gabin,

    Pierre Fresnay,

    Erich von Stroheim,

    Marcel Dalio

    ...

    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.