Durante la prima guerra mondiale, due soldati francesi vengono catturati e imprigionati in un campo di prigionia tedesco. Seguono diversi tentativi di fuga fino a quando non vengono inviati ... Leggi tuttoDurante la prima guerra mondiale, due soldati francesi vengono catturati e imprigionati in un campo di prigionia tedesco. Seguono diversi tentativi di fuga fino a quando non vengono inviati a una fortezza apparentemente ineludibile.Durante la prima guerra mondiale, due soldati francesi vengono catturati e imprigionati in un campo di prigionia tedesco. Seguono diversi tentativi di fuga fino a quando non vengono inviati a una fortezza apparentemente ineludibile.
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- 6 vittorie e 2 candidature totali
- Le captaine von Rauffenstein
- (as Eric von Stroheim)
- Cartier - l'acteur
- (as Carette)
- Le serrurier
- (as Peclet)
- L'instituteur
- (as Daste)
- Le lieutenant Demolder
- (as Itkine)
- L'ingénieur
- (as Modot)
- Le lieutenant Rosenthal
- (as Dalio)
- L'officier anglais
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- Le sénégalais
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- Un soldat
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- Un prisonnier
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- Maison-Neuve
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- Le soldat allemand qui tue le capitaine de Boeldieu
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- Un officier de la forteresse
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- QuizJoseph Goebbels made sure that the film's print was one of the first things seized by the Germans when they occupied France. He referred to Jean Renoir as "Cinematic Public Enemy Number 1". For many years it was assumed that the film had been destroyed in an Allied air raid in 1942. However, a German film archivist named Frank Hansel, then a Nazi officer in Paris, had actually smuggled it back to Berlin. Then when the Russians entered Berlin in 1945, the film found its way to an archive in Moscow. When Renoir came to restore his film in the 1960s, he knew nothing of Hansel's acquisition and was working from an old muddy print. Purely by coincidence at the same time, the Russian archive swapped some material with an archive in Toulouse. Included in that exchange was the original negative print. However, because so many prints of the film existed at the time, it would be another 30 years before anyone realised that the version in Toulouse was actually the original negative.
- BlooperAs the WWI German soldiers are celebrating a French fort's capture, the map on the wall of the officers club is clearly an inter-war (1919-1938) map of Germany.
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Capt. de Boeldieu: For me it's simple. A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.
- ConnessioniEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: La monnaie de l'absolu (1999)
And it is simple (the simplest things are usually the best) - boring to some people who sadly will never understand its logic and magic - an absorbing prisoner of war tale that is also a prisoner of class tale. It defines that class loyalties are more meaningful than patriotism even if not always practical, and that to those who consider themselves to have breeding it's far more important to have "blood" than capital. Boldieu and Rauffenstein embody this, they both knew their chivalric world order was being gradually diminished - the next war will and was led by people without breeding, types like Marechal and Rosenthal who fought on. The most significant borders are not between countries, races, religions, sexes or ages but those between the classes. Renoir was at his most inspired with Illusion, with so many memorable images and set-pieces, an engrossing storyline even when down to trying to say blue eyes in German or being posh by gossipping in English, and fantastic acting by all concerned. Everything has already been covered and better in previous posts, but I would add I don't understand why Regle du jeu is the Renoir film that gets the kudos today - unless by being deliberately more obscure it appeals to influential Artheads.
The French film I love the most.
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- 27 mag 2006
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