The first of three films about The Great War as seen from both sides of the trenches - by French, American and German film-makers.
Tonight: Jean Renoir's film starring Erich von Stroheim, Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay
Two French officers, shot down over Germany, find themselves in a prison fortress governed by an ageing Prussian militarist.
Renoir's moving appeal to French-men and Germans at all costs to stop a Second World War was so powerful that it was banned in Germany and Italy.
