The set designer's chance discovery of a potted geranium in this film's shooting location led its director to incorporate it into a scene where a character cuts the flower in mourning for his friend's death.
A character in this film is introduced by a tracking shot that moves from a chapel's crucifix, to a military portrait, to spurs and swords on a table, and eventually to that man at a breakfast table. The set designer's chance discovery of a potted geranium in this film's shooting location led its director to incorporate it into a scene where a character cuts the flower in mourning for his friend's death. Two characters in this film build a nativity scene on Christmas Eve while staying in Elsa's farmhouse. In a scene of this film, the camera pans over men frozen in silence at the sight of a man in a dress as they prepare for a vaudeville show, at which news about (*) Fort Douaumont prompts the crowd to sing "La Marseillaise." In this film, Erich von Stroheim plays Captain von Rauffenstein, who befriends fellow aristocrat Captain de Boeldieu after the latter is shot down on a flight with MarÃ©chal. For 10 points, name this film about French POWs in World War I by Jean Renoir.
A character in this film is introduced by a tracking shot that moves from a chapel's crucifix, to a military portrait, to spurs and swords on a table, and eventually to that man at a breakfast table.
La Grande Illusion [or Grand Illusion]