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La Grande Illusion (French for "The Grand Illusion") is a 1937 French war drama film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are German prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.
Sophie Renoir (grand-niece) Jean Renoir ( French: [ʁənwaʁ] ; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made . [ 1 ]
Dalio appeared in stage plays from the 1920s and acted in French films in the 1930s. His first big film success was in Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937). He followed them with two films for Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu, 1939).
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The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, ... Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo ; The Great Barrier, ...
[1] [2] It produced the classic French film Grand Illusion (1937), which was the first ever foreign language film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The nomination officially went to the production company as a whole, because until 1950 the award was not given to individuals.
The story serves as a companion piece to the director's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.