Grand Illusion

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.

• prisoner
• france
• countryside
• escape
• germany
• world war i
• prisoner of war
• brotherhood
• camp
• aristocrat
• fraternity
• war injury
• escaped prisoner
• prison camp
• trying to escape
• escape plan
• humanism