Grand Illusion 1937

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.

Cast

Jean Gabin

Pierre Fresnay

Erich von Stroheim

Marcel Dalio

Dita Parlo

Julien Carette

Gaston Modot

Georges Péclet

Werner Florian

Jean Dasté

Sylvain Itkine

Jacques Becker

Habib Benglia

Pierre Blondy

Albert Brouett

Georges Fronval

Karl Heil

Carl Koch

Little Peters

Claude Sainval

Michel Salina

Claude Vernier

Géo Forster