La Grande Illusion

La Grande Illusion

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During WWI, French man-of-the-people flyboy Jean Gabin and aristocratic staff observer Pierre Fresnay find themselves in a POW camp after being shot down by the equally aristocratic German Erich von Stroheim.

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Film Info
Distributor: Rialto Pictures
Country: France
Release Year: 1937
Runtime: 114
Director: Jean Renoir
Rating: NR
Language: In French with English subtitles
Format: 4K DCP

"Pregnant with social, humanist, and auteurist truths, Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion contains equal measures of humanism and realism."

—Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review

"The greatest World War I movie ever made."

—Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

"This elegy for the death of the old European aristocracy is one of the true masterpieces of the screen."

—Pauline Kael, New Yorker

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