This weekend the Gene Siskel Film Center continued its new series, titled "Great War/Grande Guerre: World War I on Film," with a screening of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, the French classic of poetic realism. Many of Renoir's films were unappreciated upon release, but only this one earned the scorn of the Third Reich—Joseph Goebbels declared the film "Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1" after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival.…
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