La Grande Illusion (1937)

Directors

Jean Renoir

Cast

Carl Koch, Claude Sainval, Claude Vernier, Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim, Gaston Modot, Georges Péclet, Habib Benglia, Jacques Becker, Jean Dasté, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Blondy, Pierre Fresnay, Roger Forster, Sylvain Itkine

The story

During the First World War, two French aviators, the aristocratic Captain de Boëldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, are shot down by German flying ace and aristocrat Rittmeister von Rauffenstein, and both are taken prisoner. Rauffenstein invites them to lunch and bonds with Boëldieu over their shared background and mutual acquaintances. Boëldieu and Maréchal are then taken to a prisoner-of-war camp, where they meet a colorful group of French prisoners and stage a vaudeville-type performance.

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