Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion

114 mins | Drama, War, History | June 4, 1937

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.

Grand Illusion

114 mins | Drama, War, History | June 4, 1937

Grand Illusion
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.
IMDb rating 8.1
Producers Réalisation d'Art Cinématographique
Original title La Grande Illusion
Directors Robert Rips, Jacques Becker, Jean Renoir
Writers Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir

Cast

Jean Gabin

as Le lieutenant Maréchal

Pierre Fresnay

as Le capitaine de Boëldieu

Erich von Stroheim

as Le capitaine von Rauffenstein

Marcel Dalio

as Le lieutenant Rosenthal

Dita Parlo

as Elsa

Julien Carette

as Cartier, l'acteur

Gaston Modot

as L'ingénieur

Georges Péclet

as Le serrurier

Werner Florian

as Le sergent Arthur

Jean Dasté

as L'instituteur

Sylvain Itkine

as Le lieutenant Demolder

Jacques Becker

as L'officier anglais

Habib Benglia

as Le sénégalais

Pierre Blondy

as Un soldat

Albert Brouett

as Un prisonnier

Roger Forster

as Maison-Neuve

Georges Fronval

as Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu

Karl Heil

as Un officier de la forteresse

Carl Koch

as Un gendarme de campagne

Little Peters

as Lotte, la petite fille d'Elsa

Claude Sainval

as Le capitaine Ringis

Claude Vernier

as L'officer prussien