It was banned in Nazi Germany, and Fascist politics kept it from winning the Mussolini Cup at the 1937 Venice Film Festival, but this pacifist masterpiece was awarded a special prize there anyway.  
It was banned in Nazi Germany, and Fascist politics kept it from winning the Mussolini Cup at the 1937 Venice Film Festival, but this pacifist masterpiece was awarded a special prize there anyway.  Stateside, it became the first foreign language picture to earn a best picture nomination in Hollywood.  Drawn from its director's experience as a World War I P.O.W., it centers upon the relationship between French prisoner Boeildieu, played by Pierre Fresnay, and his captor, von Rauffenstein, brilliantly portrayed by Erich von Stroheim--both of whose aristocratic worlds have been destroyed by the War.  For 10 points, name this most profound of anti-war films, directed by Jean Renoir.
It was banned in Nazi Germany, and Fascist politics kept it from winning the Mussolini Cup at the 1937 Venice Film Festival, but this pacifist masterpiece was awarded a special prize there anyway.  
The Grand Illusion (or, La Grande Illusion)