Directed by: Jean Renoir
Genre: Drama, History, War
Countries: France
Duration: 01:54

“The Grand illusion” (1937): At the height of World War I, the German ace aviator, Captain von Rauffenstein, shoots down the plane of the aristocratic French pilot, Captain de Boeldieu, and his co-pilot, the working-class civilian mechanic, Lieutenant Maréchal, during an air-reconnaissance mission. As the captured officers find themselves in the POW camp for officers, they befriend the wealthy former Jewish banker, Lieutenant Rosenthal, and along with a group of determined compatriots, they organise an escape. However, fate has other plans in store for them, and shortly before the implementation of the plan, they are transferred by train to the a seemingly inescapable fortress-prison in France, overseen by Rauffenstein himself.

The film will be shown in the original with Russian subtitles. Free admission.