La grande illusion
Film cycle: 1914-1918 - The big war / War / Drama
Whilst being held in a prisoner-of-war camp, the aristocrat de Boëldieu feels close to his German counterpart Rauffenstein. Lieutenant Marechal and Rosenthal, a Jewish soldier, escape. Renoir’s pacifist epic descends into a tragicomic debacle which no-one escapes from unscathed.
Flagey, Cinematek