La grande illusion [videorecording] / une production des Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique ; réalisation de Jean Renoir ; scénario et dialogues, Charles Spaak et Jean Renoir ; Canal+ Image International ; directeur de production, Raymond Blondy... [et al.].
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c1999
Description:
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (63 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio. "Janus Films. [Presented by] Ministere de la Culture, Les Archives du Film du Centre national de la cinématographie" - opening credits. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1937. "Newly restored digital transfer, created from the long-lost camera negative." Special features : theatrical trailer intro featuring Jean Renoir (5 min.); optional audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie; film restoration featurette (5 min.); archival radio presentation featuring Renoir and Stroheim (5 min.). Program notes on container insert include an essay by film historian Peter Cowie.
Summary:
Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in a daring escape attempt.
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 1 The Classic collection
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.