The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, also appears in Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. In both films he plays a character who is Jewish, as Dalio was in real life. In fact, in most of the French films he's in the 1930s, he almost always plays shady characters, informers, blackmailers and gangsters. In other words, he is always "the Jew." When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, he fled to America and appeared in CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. In America, he was no longer the Jew but The Frenchman. He became, in dozens of films, America's idea of a typical Frenchman. His film career has these two strands in which he has two different identities. Are you defined by other people and their perceptions of who you are? Are you always a creation of the way people want to see you? Or can you exist outside of the arbitrary boundaries which are placed on you?
Himself (archival footage)
Movie / 1982
Movie / 2019
Movie / NaN
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2019
Movie / 1963
Movie / 2016
Movie / 2017
Movie / 1968
Movie / 2019
Movie / 2003
Movie / 2003
Movie / 2012
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2007
Movie / 2015
Movie / 2010
Movie / 1942
Movie / 1974
Movie / 2016
The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, also appears in Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. In both films he plays a character who is Jewish, as Dalio was in real life. In fact, in most of the French films he's in the 1930s, he almost always plays shady characters, informers, blackmailers and gangsters. In other words, he is always "the Jew." When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, he fled to America and appeared in CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. In America, he was no longer the Jew but The Frenchman. He became, in dozens of films, America's idea of a typical Frenchman. His film career has these two strands in which he has two different identities. Are you defined by other people and their perceptions of who you are? Are you always a creation of the way people want to see you? Or can you exist outside of the arbitrary boundaries which are placed on you?
Himself (archival footage)
Movie / 1982
Movie / 2019
Movie / NaN
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2019
Movie / 1963
Movie / 2016
Movie / 2017
Movie / 1968
Movie / 2019
Movie / 2003
Movie / 2003
Movie / 2012
Movie / 2017
Movie / 2007
Movie / 2015
Movie / 2010
Movie / 1942
Movie / 1974
Movie / 2016