Army of Shadow
L'Armée des ombreswith Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Crauchet, Paul Meurisse, Claude Mann, Serge Reggiani4 formatsFrench, English10 subtitles languages
France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... This non-spectacular movie (do not expect any Rambo or Robin Hood) shows us rigorously and austerely the everyday of the French Resistants : their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out... Both writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to this "Army in the Shadows".
- War, Second World War
- In the cycle Jean-Pierre Melville
- year1969
- nationalityFrance
- running time2h30
- rights end12/12/2023
- filming format35 mm
- screenplayJean-Pierre Melville
- director of photographyPierre Lhomme
- distributorTAMASA
- producersLes films corona, Fono Roma
- original work authorsJoseph Kessel
- 8media
- 1technical resource
- 1educational resource
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