Grand Illusion
Jean Renoir1937-06-04
A Great Drama of Human Emotions
7.8
114 min
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.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Jean Gabin | Le lieutenant Maréchal | Unowned |
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Pierre Fresnay | Le capitaine de Boëldieu | Unowned |
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Erich von Stroheim | Le capitaine von Rauffenstein | Unowned |
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Marcel Dalio | Le lieutenant Rosenthal | Unowned |
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Dita Parlo | Elsa | Unowned |
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Julien Carette | Cartier, l'acteur | Unowned |
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Gaston Modot | L'ingénieur | Unowned |
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Georges Péclet | Le serrurier | Unowned |
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Werner Florian | Le sergent Arthur | Unowned |
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Jean Dasté | L'instituteur | Unowned |
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Sylvain Itkine | Le lieutenant Demolder | Unowned |
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Jacques Becker | L'officier anglais | Unowned |
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Habib Benglia | Le sénégalais | Unowned |
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Pierre Blondy | Un soldat | Unowned |
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Albert Brouett | Un prisonnier | Unowned |
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Roger Forster | Maison-Neuve | Unowned |
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Georges Fronval | Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu | Unowned |
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Karl Heil | Un officier de la forteresse | Unowned |
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Carl Koch | Un gendarme de campagne | Unowned |
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Little Peters | Lotte, la petite fille d'Elsa | Unowned |
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Claude Sainval | Le capitaine Ringis | Unowned |
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Michel Salina | Unowned | |
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Claude Vernier | L'officer prussien | Unowned |