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Uniform Title Grande illusion (Motion picture)
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.

Publication Info. [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 1999.
1938.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult FOREIGN DVD  DVD FOREIGN-FRE-G    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD FOREIGN GRAND    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD GRAND ILLUSION    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Balcony  AV DVD 848 G751G    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD GRAND    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN FILM DVD GRAN    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Series Criterion collection ; 1
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 1.
System Details DVD, fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
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.
Note Based on the novel by Charles Spaak.
Awards Best Foreign Film, 1938, New York Film Critics Awards.
Note DVD release of the 1938 motion picture.
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.
Note Special features: Rare theatrical trailer in which Jean Renoir discusses this film and his personal war experiences; audio essay by film historian Peter Cowie; Renoir and Erich von Stroheim accept honors (archival radio presentation).
Language French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Local Note WNPLFFDVD
Subject Soldiers -- France -- Drama.
Soldiers -- Germany -- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war.
Genre/Form Motion pictures, French.
War films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
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)
Note Title on container and disc label: Jean Renoir's Grand illusion
Added Title Grand illusion
ISBN 0780020707
Standard No. 037429121924
Music No. GRA070 Criterion Collection
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