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Grand Illusion

1937, drama, history, war

114 minutes

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...

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Cast

Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin

Le lieutenant Maréchal

Dita Parlo

Dita Parlo

Elsa

Pierre Fresnay

Pierre Fresnay

Le captaine de Boeldieu

Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim

Le captaine von Rauffenstein

Georges Péclet

Georges Péclet

Le serrurier

Werner Florian

Le sergent Arthur

Jean Dasté

Jean Dasté

L'instituteur

Sylvain Itkine

Le lieutenant Demolder

Marcel Dalio

Marcel Dalio

Le lieutenant Rosenthal

Julien Carette

Julien Carette

Cartier, l'acteur

Gaston Modot

Gaston Modot

L'ingénieur

Jacques Becker

Jacques Becker

L'officier anglais

Habib Benglia

Le sénégalais

Pierre Blondy

Un soldat

Albert Brouett

Un prisonnier

George Forster

Maison-Neuve

Georges Fronval

Le soldat allemand qui tue le capitaine de Boeldieu

Karl Heil

Un officier de la forteresse

Carl Koch

Carl Koch

L'ordonnance de von Rauffenstein

Little Peters

La petite fille d'Elsa

Claude Sainval

Le capitaine Ringis

Claude Vernier

Claude Vernier

L'officer prussien

Crew

Art

Eugène Lourié

Eugène Lourié

Production design, set decoration

Camera

Claude Renoir

Claude Renoir

Camera operator

Ernest Bourreaud

Camera operator

Costume and make-up

René Decrais

Costume design

Raffels

Makeup artist

Crew

Directing

Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

Director

Jacques Becker

Jacques Becker

First assistant director

Robert Rips

Second assistant director

Editing

Marthe Huguet

Editor

Production

Maurice Barnathan

Location manager

Frank Rollmer

Producer

Sound

Joseph Kosma

Joseph Kosma

Original music composer

Joseph de Bretagne

Sound designer

Writing

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Largescale poster for Grand Illusion

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