15 May 2008
Hunger
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Grand Illusion
A Great Drama of Human Emotions
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.
Top Billed Cast
Jean Gabin Le lieutenant Maréchal
Pierre Fresnay Le capitaine de Boëldieu
Erich von Stroheim Le capitaine von Rauffenstein
Marcel Dalio Le lieutenant Rosenthal
Dita Parlo Elsa
Julien Carette Cartier, l'acteur
Gaston Modot L'ingénieur
Georges Péclet Le serrurier
Werner Florian Le sergent Arthur
Jean Dasté L'instituteur
Sylvain Itkine Le lieutenant Demolder
Habib Benglia Le sénégalais
Albert Brouett Un prisonnier
Georges Fronval Le soldat allemand qui vise le capitaine de Boëldieu
Karl Heil Un officier de la forteresse
Little Peters Lotte, la petite fille d'Elsa
Claude Sainval Le capitaine Ringis
Michel Salina 
Claude Vernier L'officer prussien
Géo Forster Maison-Neuve
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