La Grande Vadrouille is a lie—a beautiful, necessary lie. The real French Resistance was brutal, bloody, and ambiguous. This film presents the Occupation as an inconvenience, a farce where clumsy Germans are outwitted by a conductor and a house painter.
The film’s director of photography, André Domage, shot La Grande Vadrouille on widescreen (Franscope). The 1080p transfer preserves the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio without cropping. The aerial shots of Paris, the vast opera house sets, and the final glider sequence over the Alps gain a breathtaking depth that standard definition simply crushes. La Grande Vadrouille -1966--Louis de Funes-1080...