Grand Illusion
1937A 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 Gabin
as Le lieutenant Maréchal
Pierre Fresnay
as Le capitaine de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim
as Le capitaine von Rauffenstein
Marcel Dalio
as Le lieutenant Rosenthal
Dita Parlo
as Elsa
Julien Carette
as Cartier, l'acteur
Gaston Modot
as L'ingénieur
Georges Péclet
as Le serrurier
Werner Florian
as Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté
as L'instituteur
Sylvain Itkine
as Le lieutenant Demolder
Jacques Becker
as L'officier anglais
Habib Benglia
as Le sénégalais
Pierre Blondy
as Un soldat
Albert Brouett
as Un prisonnier
Georges Fronval
as Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu
Karl Heil
as Un officier de la forteresse
Carl Koch
as Un gendarme de campagne
Little Peters
as Lotte, la petite fille d'Elsa
Claude Sainval
as Le capitaine Ringis
Michel Salina
Claude Vernier
as L'officer prussien
Géo Forster
as Maison-Neuve