Grand Illusion

A Great Drama of Human Emotions

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Jean Gabin

Le lieutenant Maréchal

Dita Parlo

Elsa

Pierre Fresnay

Le capitaine de Boëldieu

Erich von Stroheim

Le capitaine von Rauffenstein

Georges Péclet

Le serrurier

Werner Florian

Le sergent Arthur

Jean Dasté

L'instituteur

Sylvain Itkine

Le lieutenant Demolder

Marcel Dalio

Le lieutenant Rosenthal

Julien Carette

Cartier, l'acteur

Gaston Modot

L'ingénieur

Jacques Becker

L'officier anglais

Habib Benglia

Le sénégalais

Pierre Blondy

Un soldat

Roger Forster

Maison-Neuve

Albert Brouett

Un prisonnier

Georges Fronval

Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu

George Forster

Maison-Neuve