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FILM DETAILS

Certificate PG

Cast Pierre Fresnay Erich von Stroheim Jean Gabin Julien Carette

Directors Jean Renoir

Screenwriters Jean Renoir Charles Spaak

Running Time 110 minutes

La Grande Illusion
Jean Renoir's humanist masterpiece

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Plot
Two French officers in a POW camp during World War I befriend a Jew and begin to hatch an escape plan from the supposed impenetrable fort. The three are separated with the two Frenchmen arriving at a fort months later only to find their friend there already.

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