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Academy Award Outstanding Production 1939 · Nominated
Box office. $414,620 (US re-release)[ 1] La Grande Illusion (French for "The Grand Illusion") is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting ...
Archival radio presentation: Renoir and Erich von Stroheim accept Grand Illusion's Best Foreign Film honors at the 1938 New York Film Critics Awards Press book excerpts: Renoir’s letter "to the projectionist," cast bios, an essay on Renoir by von Stroheim, and essays about the film's title and recently recovered camera negative
- Lieutenant Maréchal
The Grand Illusion: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim. During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp.
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- Drama, War
- Jean Renoir
- 1938-09-12
Grand Illusion was the first non-English-language film to be nominated for an Academy Award as best picture. However, the work was so despised by the Nazis that they confiscated and destroyed prints of the film during their World War II occupation of France. Production notes and credits
- Lee Pfeiffer
Dec 15, 2020 · GRAND ILLUSION (1937) by Michael G. McDunnah. December 15, 2020. In “ Independent Study in World Cinema ,” a self-educated film nerd attempts to fill in some fairly serious gaps in his self-education. In this long overdue 11th entry in the series, we look at a masterpiece of naturalist French cinema, Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion.
Oct 3, 1999 · And the "grand illusion” of Renoir's title is the notion that the upper classes somehow stand above war. The German cannot believe that his prisoners, whom he treats almost as guests, would try to escape. After all, they have given their word not to. The commandant is played by Erich von Stroheim, in one of the most famous of movie performances.
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Feb 16, 2005 · The Grand Illusion was the first foreign film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture (though it lost to Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You, 1938). Also a huge success in France, the film won an award at the Venice Film Festival of 1937 for best artistic ensemble, created especially for the film.
