Grand Illusion
Midnight weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnight)!
Director: Jean Renoir Run Time: 113 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1937 Language: French
Starring: Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Fresnay
Man-of-the-people Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin) teams up with Jewish aristocrat Lieutenant Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) to escape a World War I German POW camp run by Captain von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim).
Restored in 4K by Studiocanal and the Cinémathèque de Toulouse from the nitrate camera negative by L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory (Bologna)
“IF I HAD ONLY ONE FILM IN THE WORLD TO SAVE, IT WOULD BE GRAND ILLUSION.” — Orson Welles
