Grand Illusion

Category: Movies •

Genre: Drama • History • War •

Rating: 7.9

Director: Jean Renoir,

Writer: Jean Renoir (Screenplay),

Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Georges Péclet, Werner Florian, Jean Dasté, Sylvain Itkine, Jacques Becker, Habib Benglia, Pierre Blondy, Albert Brouett, Roger Forster, Georges Fronval, Karl Heil, Carl Koch, Little Peters, Claude Sainval, Michel Salina, Claude Vernier,

Language: fr

Country: France, French Republic

Release Date: June 4, 1937

Plot: 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.