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1937
La Grande 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 who are plotting an escape.
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Great art doesn’t have to be explicit in order to be powerful. A good example can be found in *The Grand Illusion*, a 1937 French film directed by Jean Renoir, celebrated as the best piece of anti-war cinema despite not showing the war directly. The plot is set during the First World War, or the Great War as it was known at the time of production. In 1916, French aristocratic aviator Captain De Böeldieu (played by P…More
