The Grand Illusion
Overview
One of the greatest war films ever made, and there's barely a battle in it. Renoir's 1937 masterpiece follows French POWs in WWI whose real prison is the class system, not the camp walls. Humanist, witty, and quietly heartbreaking. Film students worship it; everyone else should just watch it. Proof that old movies can still outclass most new ones.
Cast
Jean Gabin
Dita Parlo
Pierre Fresnay
Erich von Stroheim
