Events & Calendars French Film Screening: "La Grande Illusion"

This 1937 film, directed by Jean Renoir, takes place during WWI. The film follows two French soldiers who are captured and imprisoned in a German POW camp. Here, Frenchmen from all walks of life band together to escape the camp. After several attempts the two soldiers are sent to an impenetrable mountain fortress, from which there is no escape. Through La Grande Illusion, often regarded as a masterpiece of French Cinema, Renoir questions human relationships and human nature. What separates humans? Social origins ? Languages? Nationalities? And what is the source of evil? This widely acclaimed film stands as a pacifist manifesto against antisemitism and war.
The film will be screened in French with English subtitles.
Refreshments will be served!