La Grande Illusion (French, DVD)

Jean Renoir's classic prison escape movie, often seen as a humane and pacifist indictment of war, offers an ambiguous perspective on class differences. In a WWI German prisoner-of-war camp, three French soldiers, working-class Lieutenant Marechal (Jean Gabin), middle-class Jew Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) and aristocratic senior officer Captain de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay), are held prisoner by Commandant Von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim). The film shows how a bond of sympathy exists more between the German Commandant and the senior French officer than between the three Frenchman of different classes. Even though de Boieldieu sacrifices himself for the two others to escape, the film makes no attempt to conceal what they are returning to once their role as war heroes is over.

General

Studio:	Studio Canal
Release date:	April 2012
Movie released:	1937
Actors:	Pierre Fresnay • Erich Von Stroheim • Jean Gabin • Marcel Dalio • Julien Carette • Gaston Modot • Dita Parlo • Jean Dasté • Georges Peclet • Werner Florian • Sylvain Itkime
Contributors:	Jean Renoir • Charles Spaak • Christian Matras • Claude Renoir • Joseph Kosma
Directors:	Jean Renoir
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Languages:	French
Subtitles:	English
Age restriction:	A
Categories:	DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	X4R-LKM-RNE-3
Barcode:	5055201820525

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