After Kurosawa, after Bergman, Jean Renoir takes his turn at the premier state university’s campus cinema.

In collaboration with the Embassy of France, Institut Français, the Department of European Languages ofU.P. College of Arts and Letters, and the UP Film Institute, the UP Center for International Studies will screen Jean Renoir’s 1937 French cinema masterpiece La Grande Illusion on Nov 8 (Thu) 9 AM at the UPFI Film Center – Cine Adarna.

The screening is FREE of charge and open to the general public on a first come, first served basis.

The opening ceremony of What Now?: A Hundred Years After World War 1 will also happen on Nov 8 preceding the screening of La Grande Illusion.

Film Synopsis:
During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.