Casting de La Grande Illusion

Jean Gabin

Lieutenant Maréchal

Dita Parlo

Elsa

Pierre Fresnay

Captain de Boëldieu

Erich von Stroheim

Captain von Rauffenstein

Julien Carette

Cartier, the Vaudeville Performer

Georges Péclet

Officer

Werner Florian

Sergeant Arthur

Jean Dasté

Teacher

Sylvain Itkine

Lieutenant Demolder

Gaston Modot

Engineer

Marcel Dalio

Lieutenant Rosenthal

Jacques Becker

British Officer (uncredited)

Habib Benglia

Senegalese (uncredited)

Pierre Blondy

Soldier (uncredited)

Albert Brouett

Prisoner (uncredited)

Géo Forster

Maison-Neuve (uncredited)

Georges Fronval

German Soldier Who Kills Captain de Boëldieu (uncredited)

Karl Heil

Officer of the Fortress (uncredited)

Carl Koch

Von Rauffenstein's Orderly (uncredited)

Little Peters

Elsa's Daughter (uncredited)

Claude Sainval

Captain Ringis (uncredited)

Michel Salina

(uncredited)

Claude Vernier

Prussian Officer (uncredited)