TY  - ADVS
AU  - Renoir,Jean
AU  - Spaak,Charles
AU  - Gabin,Jean
AU  - Von Stroheim,Erich
AU  - Fresnay,Pierre
AU  - Dalio,Marcel
AU  - Parlo,Dita
ED  - CANAL+ Image International (Firm)
ED  - Râealisations d'Art Cinâematographique (Firm)
ED  - Janus Films.
ED  - Home Vision (Firm)
TI  - La grand illusion
T2  - The Criterion collection
SN  - 0780020707
AV  - CM DVD 00742 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - [Irvington, NY]
PB  - Criterion Collection
KW  - War films
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Drama
KW  - Feature films
KW  - DVD-Video discs
KW  - local
N1  - Title from title screen; Videodisc release of a 1938 motion picture, copyright renewed in 1958 by Compaignie Jean Renoir; Special features: Theatrical trailer in which Jean Renoir discusses both Grand Illusion and his personal war experiences -- Audio essay from film historian Peter Cowie -- Archival radio presentation: Renoir and von Stroheim accept Grand Illusion's Best Foreign Film honors at the 1938 New York Film Critics Award -- Press book excerpts: Renoir's letter "to the projectionist," cast bios, an essay on Renoir by von Stroheim, and essays about the film's title and recently recovered camera negative -- Restoration demonstration; Director, Jean Renoir ; producers, Raymond Blondy, Frank Rollmer, Albert Pinkovitch ; screenplay, Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir ; photography, Christian Matras ; music, Joseph Kosma; Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo
N2  - A classic tale of adventure. Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner of war camp during World War I, when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the commandant yet must cooperate with his comrades in a daring escape
ER  -