Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937) Summary

1. Grand Illusion movie review & film summary (1937) | Roger Ebert

  • It's not a movie about a prison escape, nor is it jingoistic in its politics; it's a meditation on the collapse of the old order of European civilization.

  • Apart from its other achievements, Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion” influenced two famous later movie sequences. The digging of the escape tunnel in "The Great

2. Grand Illusion (1937)

  • Plot Summary. During the first World War, two French soldiers, the aristocratic Boieldieu and the working class Marechal, are shot down and captured by the ...

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3. GRAND ILLUSION (1937) | Independent Study in World Cinema

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  • The Unaffiliated Critic's long analysis of Jean Renoir's 1937 masterpiece GRAND ILLUSION, starring Jean Rabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim.

4. Grand Illusion | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Through the interactions between the French and German soldiers, the movie highlights the common humanity that exists between people, regardless of nationality.

  • A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), 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 (Erich von Stroheim), who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

5. Jean Renoir's pacifist masterpiece La Grande Illusion - BFI

6. The Grand Illusion Background | GradeSaver

  • Jan 6, 2023 · Renoir's film follows a group of French soldiers, led by Captain de Boeldieu and Lieutenant Maréchal, who has been captured by the German army ...

  • The The Grand Illusion Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

7. Grand Illusion | film by Renoir [1937] | Britannica

  • Grand Illusion ; World War I, a French plane piloted by two officers—a wealthy aristocrat, Captain de Boeldieu (played by ; Pierre Fresnay), and a working-class ...

  • Grand Illusion, French war film, released in 1937, that was directed by Jean Renoir. Elegant, humane, and affecting, it has been recognized as a profound statement against war and is often ranked among the greatest films ever made. During World War I, a French plane piloted by two officers—a

8. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) - Senses of Cinema

  • Mar 18, 2016 · At the end of La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937), two prisoners of war, working class engineer Marechal (Jean Gabin) and wealthy Jew ...

9. Grande Illusion (1937) | Classic Film - WordPress.com

  • Oct 15, 2018 · The plot of La Grande Illusion unfolds using deep focus and careful framing in a series of episodes that are united by the theme of escape ...

  • November’s Classic Film Club will screen Jean Renoir’s Grande Illusion (1937) to mark the centenary of WWI. In French that war was known as ‘la der des ders’ (‘the last of the last’) – and pe…

10. Classic Movie Review: Grand Illusion (1937) - Panorama of the Mountains

  • Oct 10, 2021 · Title: La Grande Illusion Release Date: June 8, 1937 Director: Jean Renoir Production Company: Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique (RAC) ...

  • Title: La Grande Illusion Release Date: June 8, 1937 Director: Jean Renoir Production Company: Réalisations d’Art Cinématographique (RAC) Summary/Review: I doubt Grand Illusion was the first …

11. Grand Illusion (1937) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM

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12. The great escape: what makes La Grande Illusion great - BFI

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  • In past S&S polls of the greatest films of all time, Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion has lost out to his later, allegedly more personal film La Règle du jeu. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider.

13. The Great Beauty of La Grande Illusion

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  • Last year, in 2015 (which was not a long time ago), I made some great film discoveries, but, overall, I might have discovered what would be for me the best French movie of all times: La Grande Illu…

14. Grand Illusion (1937) directed by Jean Renoir • Reviews, film + cast

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  • 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.

15. Grand Illusion (1937) - A Slice of Cake

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  • Where Jean Gabin portrayed a doomed working class hero in Le jour se lève, in Grand Illusion (La grande illusion), he played perhaps the most hopeful symbol of the victorious proletariat that Frenc…

16. Grand Illusion (1937) | MUBI

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  • A group of French soldiers, including an aristocratic captain and a working-class lieutenant, grapple with their class differences as they are held in a WWI German prison camp. When transferred to a high-security fortress ruled by an aristocratic German officer, the men must concoct an escape plan.

17. Grand Illusion | The Definitives | Deep Focus Review

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  • Pregnant with social, humanist, and auteurist truths, Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion contains equal measures of humanism and realism. Beneath a World

18. La Grande Illusion – review | World cinema | The Guardian

  • Apr 5, 2012 · The "grand illusion" of Jean Renoir's great film referred originally to the British author Norman Angell's belief that the supposed ...

  • Jean Renoir's great anti-war develops the fallacy of its title with tragic and ironic grandeur, writes Peter Bradshaw

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