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Title La grande illusion [videorecording] = [Grand illusion] / une production des Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique ; réalisation de Jean Renoir ; scénario et dialogues, Charles Spaak et Jean Renoir ; Canal+ Image International ; directeur de production, Raymond Blondy... [et al.].
Imprint Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, c1999.
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Edition Special ed., standard format (1:33:1).
Description 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (63 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Series Criterion collection ; 1
Classic collection
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 1.
System Details DVD; 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 ; music, Joseph Kosma ; English titles, Herman G. Weinberg.
Note "Janus Films. [Presented by] Ministere de la Culture, Les Archives du Film du Centre national de la cinématographie" - opening credits.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.
"Newly restored digital transfer, created from the long-lost camera negative." - [source]
Summary Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in a daring escape attempt.
Note Special features : theatrical trailer intro featuring Jean Renoir (5 min.); optional audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie; film restoration featurette (5 min.); archival radio presentation featuring Renoir and Stroheim (5 min.).
Program notes on container insert include an essay by film historian Peter Cowie.
Language In French with optional English subtitles.
Awards Best Foreign Film, 1938, New York Film Critics Awards.
Subject Soldiers -- France -- Drama.
Soldiers -- Germany -- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Prison films.
War 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.
Dalio, Marcel, 1900-1983.
Cowie, Peter.
Réalisations d'Art Cinématographique (Firm)
CANAL+ Image International (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Note Title on container and disc label: Jean Renoir's Grand illusion
Added Title Grand illusion
Other Standard Identifier 037429121924
Publisher No. GRA070 Criterion Collection
ISBN 0780020707
9780780020702
Branch Call Number Fre DVD MOVIE G