La grande illusion (1937)




Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio - La grande illusion

Erich von Stroheim - La grande illusion




During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.


Vintage magazines

Visages et contes du cinéma 24 1938
Visages et contes du cinéma 24 1938
Visages et contes du cinéma 24 1938

Visages et contes du cinéma 24 1938

Books on La grande illusion

Martin O'Shaughnessy
La Grande Illusion
London, 2009

Julian Jackson
La grande illusion
New York, 2009

Books with substantial mentioning of La grande illusion

Barry Nevin
Cracking Gilles Deleuze's crystal, Narrative space-time in the films of Jean Renoir
Edinburgh, 2018

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

John Howard Reid
These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards, A Film-Lover's Guide to the Best of the Rest
2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Michelle Banks (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 2000, 19th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1999
Detroit, New York, [..], 2000

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Articles on La grande illusion

My Favourite Film, Mike Newell on La Grande Illusion, in: Empire, nr. 275 (May), 2012 pp. 28

Ginette Vincendeau, The great escape, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 5 (May), 2012 pp. 40-42

Reviews

Phil de Semlyen, La grande illusion, in: Empire, nr. 276 (June), 2012 pp. 134 (DVD review)


Year: 1937
Country: France
Language: French
German
English
Russian
 
IMDb: 0028950