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La Grande Illusion - Presentation Box [VHS] [1998]
  

La Grande Illusion - Presentation Box [VHS] [1998]

VHS ~ Jean Gabin
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Actors: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
  • Directors: Jean Renoir
  • Writers: Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak
  • Producers: Albert Pinkovitch, Frank Rollmer
  • Format: Box set, Black & White, PAL, Subtitled
  • Language English, French, German, Russian
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Art House Productions Ltd.
  • VHS Release Date: 7 Nov 1994
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000057R88
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44,207 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's long been one of the revered classics of international cinema, but there is no fine layer of dust over La Grande Illusion. Jean Renoir's film is just as vibrant, exciting and wise as it has ever been. The story is set during World War I, mostly in a couple of German POW camps, where two very different French prisoners plot to escape: the working-class officer Maréchal (Jean Gabin, the French Spencer Tracy) and the upper-class de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The suspenseful backbone of the story is formed by these escape attempts, but Renoir is primarily concerned with the way people treat each other, and especially with how class and nationality inform human relations. Most compelling of all the film's characters is the aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, unforgettably incarnated by stiff-backed Erich von Stroheim; although he runs a prison camp, von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with de Boieldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility. There is nothing dewy or naive about Renoir's vision (and two years after the release of this antiwar film, Europe was plunged into another world war), yet La Grande Illusion is one of those movies that makes you feel good about such long-outmoded ideas as sacrifice and brotherhood. After it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1937, the Nazis declared the film "Cinematographic Enemy Number One". There can be no higher praise. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Synopsis
A World War One drama which centres around three Frenchmen who are held as POW's by the Germans. Includes the screenplay. French dialogue with English subtitles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest films ever made, 1 Dec 2003
By J. Greaves (UK) - See all my reviews
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This film may be 66 years old but it is still a remarkable work that never fails to move me.
The storyline is amply covered in the official Amazon review but along with Kubrick's 1957 "Paths of Glory" and the original 1930 "All Quiet on the Western Front", it is a film that everyone should see.
There are no battle scenes and very few special effects but none are necessary. If you've stumbled across this film by accident, you will not waste your money (and it's so cheap for what it is) if you tack it onto another order just out of curiosity.
The musical score is a masterpiece in its own right but beware that if you order that, it is only a recording from the film, not a separate performance.
There are very few films anywhere near as good as this one, and it would be hard to argue compellingly that any was better. Take the risk. I'm quite sure you won't regret it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars no subtitles, 25 Jun 2008
By Karl-oskar Gustafsson "Karl-Oskar" (sweden) - See all my reviews
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Good choice if you understand french or german. There are no subtitles so the product info is wrong!
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