Grand Illusion
Two French officers, an aristocrat and a mechanic risen through the ranks, are shot down over Germany in 1916 and passed through a series of prison camps. At a fortress run by an aristocratic German colonel, the two noblemen find they have more in common with each other than with their own countrymen. The class that binds enemies and divides countrymen, dissolving.
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