One of the very first prison escape movies, grand illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Sommaire 1 synopsis 2 fiche technique 3 distribution 4 genese du film 4. But since many prints of the film existed and no one thought the original negative had survived, the negative waited for 30 years before being identified as a treasure. During wwi, two french soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a german p. Franklin roosevelt said, every democratic person should see this film. Apart from its other achievements, jean renoirs grand illusion influenced two famous later movie sequences. A hit when it opened at the marivaux in paris in june 1937, it won a prize at the venice biennale and was voted the best foreign film in new york in 1938. Its themes of divided class, racial and national loyalties and the conflict between patriotism and pacifism made it a controversial film on its release on the eve of world war ii. The two unlikely companions meet fellow prisoners and. One of the finest films ever made about the harsh realities of war.
Chosen by the 1958 brussels film festival as one of the six best films of all time during the first world war, two french officers are captured. Fina somebody who was interested, a man named alb who was the assistant to a. Even the details of the tunnel dig are the samethe way the prisoners hide the. The title of the film comes from the 1909 book the great illusion by british journalist norman. Les superlatifs ne manquent pas pour en parler, a commencer par roosevelt qui avait declare a sa sortie. Regardez aladdin le film en entier vostfr gratuitement. Jean renoirs grand illusion is a masterful antiwar statement, bringing humane insight and an undercurrent of ironic humor to an unusual. It is a film of surpassing melancholy, this tragic chamber drama of prison camp life and death in world war i.
The story concerns class relationships among a small group of french officers who are prisoners of war during world war i and are plotting an escape. Think about how renoir uses each of these elements to put warm flesh on the political bones. The title of the film comes from the 1909 book the great illusion by british. The digging of the escape tunnel in the great escape and the singing of the marseilles to enrage the germans in casablanca can first be observed in renoirs 1937 masterpiece. In the mid1960s, klawens wrote, a russian film archive and one in toulouse, france, exchanged some prints, including the priceless grand illusion. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a.