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La Grande Illusion - Wikipedia
La Grande Illusion (also known as The Grand Illusion) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Illusion
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La Grande Illusion (1937) - IMDb
During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/
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Grand Illusion Movie Review & Film Summary (1937) | Roger Ebert
Apart from its other achievements, Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion” influenced two famous later movie sequences.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-grand-illusion-1937
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The Grand Illusion | Criterion
One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.
https://www.criterion.com/films/351-grand-illusion
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La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (1938) - Rotten Tomatoes
For its 75th Anniversary, Rialto Pictures presents a stunning 4K restoration of GRAND ILLUSION, Jean Renoir's powerful and eloquent anti-war film set during World War I.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/la_grande_illusion
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Grand Illusion (1937) - Overview - TCM.com
Overview of Grand Illusion, 1937, directed by Jean Renoir, with Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, at Turner Classic Movies
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76799/Grand-Illusion/
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Grand Illusion (1937) - Decent Films
Jean Renoir is best known for writing and directing a pair of towering masterpieces made two years apart, Grand Illusion (1937) and Rules of the Game (1939).
http://decentfilms.com/reviews/grandillusion
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Renoir’s Vision for a United Europe in ‘Grand Illusion’ - The New York Times
Renoir’s “Grand Illusion,” from 1937 (and now newly restored), may have lessons for a Europe bitterly divided at present.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/movies/renoirs-vision-for-a-united-europe-in-grand-illusion.html?mtrref=www.google.com
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Visions of a better Europe: Jean Renoir’s pacifist masterpiece La Grande Illusion turns 80 | BFI
Among the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s First World War drama La Grande Illusion – released exactly 80 years ago – still packs a powerful punch as a film about humanity’s common bonds.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/grande-illusion-jean-renoir-jean-gabin
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'Grand Illusion' was 'cinematographic enemy number one' - Business Insider
Josef Goebbels labeled it "Cinematographic Enemy Number One" and tried to destroy every print of the film. He failed, and the film is now considered a masterpiece.
https://www.businessinsider.com/grand-illusion-cinematographic-enemy-number-one-nazi-germany-2016-11
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La Grande Illusion – review | Film | The Guardian
Jean Renoir's great anti-war develops the fallacy of its title with tragic and ironic grandeur, writes Peter Bradshaw
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/apr/05/la-grande-illusion-review
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The Miracles of “Grand Illusion” | The New Yorker
On the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, there’s no need to argue for “Grand Illusion” ’s greatness as a movie.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-miracles-of-grand-illusion
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Grand Illusion | Film Review | Slant Magazine
A deeply compassionate, never sentimentalized threnody for the European aristocracy rendered obsolete as the dodo bird by WWI’s catastrophic carnage.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/grand-illusion
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La Grande Illusion | Blu-ray Review | Slant Magazine
Lionsgate’s superb disc for La Grande Illusion will wipe away any salty tears that it doesn’t carry the Criterion logo.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/la-grande-illusion
