Grand Illusion (1937)
La Grande Illusion
"A Great Drama of Human Emotions"
Critics Score
🎬 97%
(RT: 97%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Pierre Fresnay as Le capitaine de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim as Le capitaine von Rauffenstein
Dita Parlo as Elsa
Julien Carette as Cartier, l'acteur
Gaston Modot as L'ingénieur
Georges Péclet as Le serrurier
Is Grand Illusion good?
Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 97%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
