Grand Illusion
June 4, 1937
Overview
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...More
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.
Cast and crew
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Jean Renoir
Director
Jean Gabin
Le lieutenant Maréchal
Pierre Fresnay
Le capitaine de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim
Le capitaine von Rauffenstein
Marcel Dalio
Le lieutenant Rosenthal
Dita Parlo
Elsa
Julien Carette
Cartier
Gaston Modot
L'ingénieur
Georges Péclet
Le serrurier
WF
Werner Florian
Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté
L'instituteur
SI
Sylvain Itkine
Le lieutenant Demolder
Jacques Becker
L'officier anglais
Habib Benglia
Le sénégalais
PB
Pierre Blondy
Un soldat
AB
Albert Brouett
Un prisonnier
GF
Georges Fronval
Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu
KH
Karl Heil
Un officier de la forteresse
CK
Carl Koch
Un gendarme de campagne
LP
Little Peters
Lotte
CS
Claude Sainval
Le capitaine Ringis
MS
Michel Salina
Claude Vernier
L'officer prussien
Géo Forster
Maison-Neuve