Grand illusion videorecording / Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique ; produced by Frank Rollmer and Albert Pinkovitch ; screenplay by Charles Spaak and Jean Renoir ; directed by Jean Renoir.
Cataloged from container. In French, with English subtitles. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1937. VHS format Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Strohiem, Jean Gabin.
Summary:
Tells of two French officers captured by German forces in 1916. While prisoners the two officers encounter an aristocratic German officer. The conflicts between enemies and between the classes emphasize their awareness that certain ways of life are gone forever. The message of the movie is the tragic observation that war itself is the grand illusion.
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