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La Grande Illusion

1937. b/w. 114 min. French w/English subtitles. Criterion Collection. 1999. $80.97; Blu-ray. StudioCanal. 2012. $29.99.

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Director Jean Renoir's eloquent and graceful masterpiece of French POWs including Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay striving to survive the war. With an unforgettable Erich von Stroheim. (LJ 7/00)

Reviewed by Edwin B. Burgess, Margaret Heilbrun , Nov 01, 2013

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