La Grande Illusion an excellent eyeopener

La Grande Illusion: Special Edition (Optimum, €24.99) is a digitally restored uncut version of Jean Renoir’s 1937 classic.

An aristocrat, Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), mechanic/officer (Jean Gabin) and Jewish banker (Marcel Dalio), are captured and find themselves stuck in a fortress run by Van Rauffenstein (Erich Von Stroheim).