Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean Gabin
Lieutenant Maréchal
Dita Parlo
Elsa
Pierre Fresnay
Captain de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim
Captain von Rauffenstein
- Julien Carette — Cartier, the Vaudeville Performer
- Georges Péclet — Officer
- Werner Florian — Sergeant Arthur
- Jean Dasté — Teacher
- Sylvain Itkine — Lieutenant Demolder
- Gaston Modot — Engineer
- Marcel Dalio — Lieutenant Rosenthal
- Jacques Becker — British Officer (uncredited)
- Habib Benglia — Senegalese (uncredited)
- Pierre Blondy — Soldier (uncredited)
- Albert Brouett — Prisoner (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jean Renoir
- Written
- Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 785 ratings
- Studio
- Réalisation d'Art Cinématographique
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
