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La Grande Illusion

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The feature film starring Erich von Stroheim Jean Gabin , Pierre Fresnay
Erich von Stroheim played a number of roles in French films but his best is indubitably the gallant pilot, reduced by his wounds to running a prison camp, in this moving appeal to Frenchmen and Germans to stop a second world war at any cost.
Screenplay by CHARLES SPAAK , JEAN RENOIR Directed by JEAN RENOIR
(A French film with English sub-titles) . Films: pp 16-17

Contributors

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

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