The Grand Illusion [La grande illusion]

Jean Renoir (director, screenwriter)
Charles Spaak (screenwriter)
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim (starring)

Paris: N.p., 1957. Two original single weight black-and-white press photographs from an anniversary showing of the 1937 French film, circa 1957. Director Renoir is seen with actress Mylene Demongeot, and an image of a neighboring Champs-Elysees drugstore.

Renoir's film about soldiers during WWI is widely regarded as a masterpiece, and one of Orson Welles' favorite films.

5 x 7 inches. Light curling, else Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.


[Book #144612]