Grand Illusion

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 to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

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  Jean Renoir
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  Jacques Becker
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  Robert Rips

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  Jean Gabin
  Le lieutenant Maréchal
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  Pierre Fresnay
  Le capitaine de Boëldieu
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  Erich von Stroheim
  Le capitaine von Rauffenstein
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  Marcel Dalio
  Le lieutenant Rosenthal
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  Dita Parlo
  Elsa
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  Julien Carette
  Cartier, l'acteur
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  Gaston Modot
  L'ingénieur
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  Georges Péclet
  Le serrurier
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  Sylvain Itkine
  Lieutenant Demolder
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  Werner Florian
  Le sergent Arthur
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  Jean Dasté
  L'instituteur
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  Jacques Becker
  British Officer (uncredited)
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  Habib Benglia
  Senegalese (uncredited)
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  Pierre Blondy
  Soldier (uncredited)
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  Albert Brouett
  Prisoner (uncredited)
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  Géo Forster
  Maison-Neuve (uncredited)
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  Georges Fronval
  German Soldier Who Kills Captain de Boëldieu (uncredited)
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  Karl Heil
  Officer of the Fortress (uncredited)
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  Carl Koch
  Von Rauffenstein's Orderly (uncredited)
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  Little Peters
  Elsa's Daughter (uncredited)