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.
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Jean Gabin as Le lieutenant Maréchal
Pierre Fresnay as Le capitaine de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim as Le capitaine von Rauffenstein
Marcel Dalio as Le lieutenant Rosenthal
Dita Parlo as Elsa
Julien Carette as Cartier, l'acteur
Gaston Modot as L'ingénieur
Georges Péclet as Le serrurier
Werner Florian as Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté as L'instituteur
Sylvain Itkine as Le lieutenant Demolder
Jacques Becker as L'officier anglais
Habib Benglia as Le sénégalais
Pierre Blondy as Un soldat
Albert Brouett as Un prisonnier
Georges Fronval as Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu
Karl Heil as Un officier de la forteresse
Carl Koch as Un gendarme de campagne
Little Peters as Lotte, la petite fille d'Elsa
Claude Sainval as Le capitaine Ringis
Michel Salina as
Claude Vernier as L'officer prussien
Géo Forster as Maison-Neuve
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