00:00The Great Illusion, an aspect still little known of war.
00:04It is, according to authentic stories, the life of prisoners of war in Germany.
00:08What's the matter?
00:09Oh, what's the matter?
00:10It's a letter from my aunt, who lives in Bordeaux.
00:12It seems that there is a madman over there.
00:14Strengstensverboten.
00:16It is severely forbidden to speak with the sentinels.
00:18Strengstensverboten, my lord.
00:20Strengstensverboten.
00:22Stengstensverboten.
00:24Stengstensverboten.
00:26Stengstensverboten.
00:28The Great Illusion, with Jean Gabin.
00:39Guita Tarlot.
00:42The coffee is ready.
00:45Pierre Frenez.
00:47On one side, children playing with soldiers,
00:50and on the other, soldiers playing like children.
00:53And Erich von Stroheim.
00:55Here.
00:59And here.
01:01Carre.
01:03And with your rubber speech, he has stolen my pants.
01:07Dasté, Hitkin, Motto, Péclet, and Dajon.
01:11I'm going to push him so much that he's happy.
01:14He's going to be a little ship.
01:16The Great Illusion is a film about war where you will not see battles or spies.
01:21Prisoners of war, officers, allowed to receive food from France,
01:25are sometimes, by a curious paradox, better fed than their prisoners.
01:33We will be able to thank you for all your kindness.
01:38What are the little fathers going to do?
01:40We'll see.
01:43The anti-rape distractions that are allowed to them give free rein to their imagination.
01:48There are not only dresses that are short.
01:50So, cut hair too?
01:51Cut hair?
01:53We have to pretend that we sleep with a girl.
01:55I slept with a brunette.
01:57With whom?
01:58A friend of my mother.
01:59We all gave her a respectable dress.
02:01Who took care of Bonne-Sainte.
02:02It's not vain.
02:03I think that in general, with people, it's rather there.
02:14These dreams, this inaction,
02:16the desire to join the comrades of the front,
02:19is born the idea of escape.
02:21And this inaction becomes an obsession, or a sport.
02:24That's all?
02:25To escape me.
02:26I disguise myself in everything.
02:29Pinambur.
02:36And tomorrow, who's paying?
02:38You, Captain.
02:40If you allow me.
02:45She's solid, at least.
02:47You can go.
02:48There are ten like you and five like me.
02:54In Basque, the individualities are exasperated.
02:57Outside of all the conventions adopted,
03:00affinities unite men above the borders.
03:03Popular affinities.
03:05Do you speak French well?
03:06Yes, I worked at Gnomes in Lyon.
03:08No kidding.
03:09Me too.
03:10Aristocratic affinities.
03:11I met a sailor in Berlin.
03:15I met a sailor.
03:17Really?
03:18He's my cousin.
03:19We've been together for 18 months,
03:22but we still call each other you.
03:24I call you my mother, and you my wife.
03:27Sailor!
03:30You understand that if you do not obey my order now,
03:34I'll have to shoot.
03:37Sailor!
03:39Sailor!
03:41I beg your pardon.
03:43In spite of the conventions,
03:45sentimental affinities bring hope.
03:47What are you doing here?
03:49French.
03:50French, you understand?
03:52French, you understand?
03:54I'm not afraid.
03:55For 18 months, I was yelled at.
03:57I never understood anything.
03:58But with her, I understand everything.
04:00Come and see reality in the great illusion.
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