LA GRANDE ILLUSION is a french movie directed in 1937 by Jean Renoir.
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The period is WWI. Two french officers, Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay, a blue collar and an aristocrat, are captured by the german army and sent into a prisoner camp. After having tried several times to escape, they are finally jailed in a military fort under Erich Von Stroheim's surveillance. Pierre Fresnay and Von Stroheim develop a mutual friendly esteem while Jean Gabin is still thinking about a way to escape.
A masterpiece.
The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler