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Grand Illusion
1937, Jun 18
1h 54m
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
Written by
Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak
Jean Gabin
Lieutenant Maréchal
Marcel Dalio
Lieutenant Rosenthal
Pierre Fresnay
Captain de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim
Captain von Rauffenstein
Jean Dasté
Teacher
Dita Parlo
Elsa
Julien Carette
Cartier, the Vaudeville Performer
Gaston Modot
Engineer
Géo Forster
Maison-Neuve (uncredited)
Claude Vernier
Prussian Officer (uncredited)
Georges Péclet
Officer
Habib Benglia
Senegalese (uncredited)
Michel Salina
(uncredited)
Claude Sainval
Captain Ringis (uncredited)
Georges Fronval
German Soldier Who Kills Captain de Boëldieu (uncredited)
Werner Florian
Sergeant Arthur
Sylvain Itkine
Lieutenant Demolder
Albert Brouett
Prisoner (uncredited)
Karl Heil
Officer of the Fortress (uncredited)
Little Peters
Elsa's Daughter (uncredited)
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