La Grande Illusion (1937)
Note: this print runs 113 minutes against a recorded 124 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, Julien Carette, Jacques Becker
Directed by Jean Renoir
La Grande Illusion (commonly known in English as "The Grand Illusion") is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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