Winter Classic Film Series: They Was Robbed: Movies Nominated for Best Picture Oscar That Lost- Grand Illusion

Program Type:

Movies

Audience:

Adults

Event Details

Each film will be introduced by area cinephile Ann Glenn with info about the film’s production, director, and stars followed by a Q&A session.

Grand Illusion (1937)

One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp, and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein.

114 minutes/NR

 

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