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Jun 19, 1970 · Army of Shadows: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret. An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
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- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1970-06-19
Army of Shadows (French: L'Armée des ombres; Italian: L'armata degli eroi) is a 1969 Franco-Italian World War II suspense-drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret.
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May 21, 2006 · Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows" is about members of the French Resistance who persist in the face of despair. Rarely has a film shown so truly that place in the heart where hope lives with fatalism.
The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean-Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance.
- Philippe Gerbier
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France. France, 1942, under German occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is a French Resistance commandant. Denounced by a French collaborator, he is interned in a concentration camp.
The unusual distribution history of Army of Shadows fits oddly well with its premise - the struggles of a French resistance group facing both internal sabotage and German persecution, with ...
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