This superb La Grande Illusion Poster will convey the unique atmosphere of this classic French film with its vintage style!h2>
- Paper characteristics:
- 🎨 Canvas: global standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” look.
- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- Paper recycled, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for Total protection.
- Free standard delivery.
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this Poster La Grande Illusion
La Grande Illusion is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, considered one of the great masterpieces in the history of cinema.
World War I: French fighter pilot Maréchal and staff officer de Boeldieu are shot down during a reconnaissance flight by German fighter pilot Rittmeister von Rauffenstein and are taken prisoner of war at his air base. In the first prison camp, they participate in the clandestine construction of an underground tunnel. In the process, they meet Rosenthal, who supplies the group with delicious canned food sent to him by his wealthy parents. They rehearse a boulevard-style farce; When news of the recapture of Fort Douaumont arrives during the performance, Maréchal sings the Marseillaise and is punished for it with solitary confinement. The isolation in his cell almost causes him to lose his mind.
Boeldieu, Maréchal, and Rosenthal are transferred before they can use the tunnel. After several more camps and escape attempts, they are transferred, along with other prisoners, to a fortress in southern Germany known to be escape-proof. Rauffenstein, who has since been shot and seriously wounded, acts as commandant of the prison camp—a humiliation for the veteran. An unusual friendship develops between Boeldieu and Rauffenstein. During long conversations, Rauffenstein laments the end of the old era, which he describes as glorious, while Boeldieu tries to prepare for the future.
A new escape attempt is made by dividing up the tasks: Maréchal and Rosenthal must rappel, while Boeldieu, playing the piccolo and climbing the rocks, distracts the guard teams and Rauffenstein. Rauffenstein, misinterpreting Boeldieu’s behavior as an attempt to escape, aims at the latter’s knee, but hits him in the stomach. When he learns of the two Frenchmen’s escape, he understands Boeldieu’s behavior. He dies shortly after, mourned by his chivalrous friend who cannot forgive himself for the fatal shot. Maréchal and Rosenthal manage to escape and find refuge with a German peasant woman whose husband died in the war. They recover from the ordeal of escape with the peasant woman and her little girl. Maréchal and the peasant woman fall in love. Marshal promises to return after the war and bring her to his home in France. A border patrol doesn’t find them until they cross the border into Switzerland, where they are safe. A single salvo fired misses them.