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Grand Illusion
Running Time: 111 min.

Summary:
Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, tw... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Jean Gabin (Lieutenant Maréchal) Pierre Fresnay (Capt. de Boeldieu) Erich Von Stroheim (Von Rauffenstein) Marcel Dalio (Rosenthal) All Cast & Crew >> Review: A "poetic realist" masterpiece, Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937) eloquently revealed the absurdity of war in a story about escape from a World War I German prison camp. One of the first sound film masters of the mobile camera, Renoir structured hi ... Continue >>

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