Jean Renoir - La Grande illusion (1937)

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La Grande illusion - Criterion (1937)
113 min | XviD 656x480 | 1630 kb/s | 192 kb/s AC3 mono | 25 fps | 1.44 GB 3% recovery record
French | Subtitles: English and Spanish, Portuguese and French .srt | Genre: Drama/War
During 1st WW, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape...

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Grand Illusion
Grand Illusion is a movie about class that doesn't hate anyone. How often does that happen? Yes, there are namby-pamby movies that quot;show all sidesquot; and bore everyone with their non-existent point-of-view, but that's not what I mean. And, of course, there are plenty of movies about class that reveal their biases from the start; I'm rather fond of Eat the Rich movies, myself. But Grand Illusion is about class without dismissing any of its characters. The aristocrats whose world is disappearing are presented as tragic figures, stuck in a code of life that is rapidly becoming meaningless. Both aristocrats know their time is past; the French one accepts this as probably a good thing, the German one doesn't (and blames the French one's sentiments on the French Revolution), but they both know their way of life is soon to be forgotten. And it would be easy for Renoir, when he made the film in the mid-30s a French communist with proletarian sympathies, to demonize these two. But he doesn't; he allows them their humanity, which is the most characteristic feature of Renoir movies in any event (he is the great humanist of movie history).

Nor does he show the collapse of the old way as an unfortunate preface to chaos. The bourgeois characters are good people. The world might be safe in their hands, as safe as in any other hands at least (except for the propensity among nations for war). All of the middle and lower-class characters in the movie are presented as people, not stereotypes. But Renoir doesn't accomplish this by collapsing all class boundaries into some homogenous universalism. These characters remain trapped within their class, and their class is clear to the viewer. The movie is not about the absence of class but about the crushing ironies of the very real existence of class in the lives of the characters. To show all classes without condescension, while retaining a particular point of view (that while people are good, it's best that the aristocratic world is in decline), is pretty amazing.

In Grand Illusion, the nominal hero is working/middle-class, but the upper class isn't evil and the lower class isn't romanticized or dismissed. And it's all accomplished in such a seamless way that many, if not most, first-time viewers might easily think it was a fine movie but something less than great. It sneaks up on you, and more than just about any film you can name, rewards multiple viewings. (IMDB comment)

Source: My rip from the Criterion DVD

You can also check out two previously published 1 CD rips

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La gran ilusión
Una obra sobre la camaradería y las relaciones humanas que retrata el día a día de unos prisioneros franceses en un campo de concentración alemán durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Al campo llegan dos oficiales de la aviación francesa, y sus nuevos compañeros de celda les informan de que están cavando un túnel bajo tierra para poder escapar de allí.

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Pendant la Première guerre mondiale, le capitaine Boeldieu et le lieutenant Maréchal sont faits prisonniers au camp Hallbach. Ils font connaissance avec leurs nouveaux quot; compagnons de chambrée quot;, prisonniers comme eux : Rosenthal, un bourgeois parisien, Cartier, un acteur, et deux autres officiers. Ensemble, ils décident de tout mettre en oeuvre pour s'évader, et se mettent à creuser un souterrain. Alors que leur labeur touche à sa fin, ils apprennent qu'ils vont être transférés dans un autre camp...

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