Movie Settings Database

Grand Illusion

Where:

🇩🇪 Germany

When:

The 1910s

A Great Drama of Human Emotions — 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.

Released in 1937 — 114 minutes

Genres:

Drama History War

Languages:

English German French Russian