One of the finest films ever made about the harsh realities of war. Apart from its other achievements, jean renoirs grand illusion influenced two famous later movie sequences. Ronald grant archive t he grand illusion of jean renoirs great film referred originally to the british author norman angells belief that the supposed financial. Released in 1938, with the world once again at wars edge, the grand illusion was a quiet plea to a selfdestructive europe not to commit suicide again. The digging of the escape tunnel in the great escape and the singing of the marseilles to enrage the germans in casablanca can first be observed in renoirs 1937 masterpiece. During wwi, two french soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a german p. Sommaire 1 synopsis 2 fiche technique 3 distribution 4 genese du film 4. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. The two unlikely companions meet fellow prisoners and. It is a film of surpassing melancholy, this tragic chamber drama of prison camp life and death in world war i. In the mid1960s, klawens wrote, a russian film archive and one in toulouse, france, exchanged some prints, including the priceless grand illusion. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a. Chosen by the 1958 brussels film festival as one of the six best films of all time during the first world war, two french officers are captured. Marechal, an airman who, along with captain boeldieu pierre fresnay, are shot down by captain.
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