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Title La grande illusion = Grand illusion / une production des Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique ; réalisation de Jean Renoir ; scénario et dialogues, Charles Spaak et Jean Renoir ; Canal+ Image International.

Publication Info. [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Video  D522.23 .G72 2006    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description digital
optical
mono
video file
DVD video
Series Janus films collection
Janus films collection.
System Details DVD ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Cast Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio.
Credits Director of photography, Christian Matras ; film editors, Marguerite [Houllé-Renoir], Marthe Huguet ; producers, Raymond Blondy, Frank Rollmer, Albert Pinkovitch ; music, Joseph Kosma ; English titles, Herman G. Weinberg.
Note Based on the novel by Charles Spaak.
Awards Best Foreign Film, 1938, New York Film Critics Awards.
Note Videodisc release of the 1937 motion picture.
Released as part of the "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films."
"...features a pristine digital transfer of the film in its original language, as well as English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing"--Criterion website.
Summary In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French comrades, who are commoners, in a daring escape.
Language In French with optional English subtitles.
Subject Soldiers -- France -- Drama.
Soldiers.
France.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Soldiers -- Germany -- Drama.
Germany.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Drama.
World War (1914-1918)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Subject Motion pictures, French.
Motion pictures, French.
Genre/Form War films.
War films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.
Spaak, Charles, 1903-1975.
Gabin, Jean, 1904-1976.
Parlo, Dita.
Fresnay, Pierre, 1897-1975.
Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957.
Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
CANAL+ Image International (Firm)
Added Title Grand illusion
Note Title from accompanying book : Essential art house
Title from container : 50 years of Janus Films
Added Title Fifty years of Janus Films
50 years of Janus Films.
ISBN $12.92
Music No. GRA070 Criterion Collection