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Grand Illusion

Opens on April 22

Director: Jean Renoir Run Time: 114 min. Release Year: 1937 Language: French

Starring: Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Fresnay

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.

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