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Tribute to Jean Renoir: La Grande Illusion

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

starring
Erich von Stroheim Jean Gabin
Pierre Fresnay
Renoir's moving appeal in 1938 to Frenchmen and Germans to stop a second world war at all costs was so powerful that it was banned in Germany and Italy.
The French officers, shot down over Germany, find themselves in a prison fortress governed by an ageing Prussian militarist.
Screenplay by CHARLES SPAAK and JEAN RENOIR Directed by JEAN RENOIR
(AFrench film with English sub-titles)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Gabin
Unknown:
Pierre Fresnay
Unknown:
Charles Spaak
Unknown:
Jean Renoir
Directed By:
Jean Renoir
Von Rauffenstein:
Erich von Stroheim
Marechal:
Jean Gabin
De Boeldieu:
Pierre Fresnay
Rosenthal:
Dalio
Actor:
Julien Carette
Engineer:
Gaston Modot
Schoolteacher:
Jean Daste
French soldier:
Georges Peclet
English soldier:
Jacques Becker
Demolder:
Sylvain Itkine
Source: Radio Times

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