Grand Illusion
1937 · 114 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 39,969 VOTES · DIR. Jean Renoir
Overview
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Dialogue Timeline — 962 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:45 Hey, Halphen... Going to Epernay?
00:05:43 Captain von Rauffenstein, CO, 21 st Squadron.
00:09:34 Gentlemen, we will now proceed with some minor formalities.
00:13:03 You follow the Tour de France?
00:15:15 - Maxim's... don't know it either. - It's no great loss.
00:17:19 What's a "cadaster"?
00:21:54 A sentry shot him.
00:26:42 - Playing patience? - Exactly. I'm a realist.
00:30:38 In here, soldiers play like children.
00:33:41 FORT DOUAUMONT TAKEN!
00:43:46 we should be under the garden wall in four days.
00:50:52 Three new officer POWs reporting, sir!
00:54:54 Excuse me, sir...
00:58:11 A lamentable oversight. I'm so sorry.
01:01:47 It's as good as ours.
01:05:10 Boeldieu...
01:07:29 Quite a lady, your Czarina.
01:10:44 grinding teeth, whatever...
01:15:15 Ready, boys... Two seconds...
01:29:19 We couldn't sleep in the reeds.
01:33:09 Come on.
01:39:25 Relax, it's only me!
01:43:48 Your gramophone's on the blink.
01:51:10 The woods will hide us. But in the valley, we'll have to stay low.
Cast & Characters
Jean Gabin
Le lieutenant Maréchal
Dita Parlo
Elsa
Pierre Fresnay
Le captaine de Boeldieu
Erich von Stroheim
Le captaine von Rauffenstein
Julien Carette
Cartier - l'acteur
Georges Péclet
Le serrurier
Werner Florian
Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté
L'instituteur
Sylvain Itkine
Le lieutenant Demolder
Gaston Modot
L'ingénieur
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed962
Dialogue density8.4 lines / min
First line00:02:45
Final line01:51:10
Production Record
DirectorJean Renoir
LanguageFrench
Revenue$172,885
IMDb votes39,969