La Grande Illusion [The Grand Illusion]

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

New York: Filmarte, 1938. Vintage program for the US premiere of the 1937 French film, which opened at the Filmarte Theatre in New York on September 12, 1938.

A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema, a poignant look at nationalism, class differences, and prejudice.

5.5 x 8.75 inches. One leaf, bi-fold. Near Fine.

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


[Book #151432]