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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.
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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- Drama, War
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1970-06-19
Army of Shadows. 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
May 21, 2006 · Their army is indeed made of shadows: They use false names, they have no addresses, they can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows" is about members of the French Resistance who persist in the face of despair.
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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- Lino Ventura
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- War, History, Drama
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.
Mar 17, 2006 · Army in the Shadows. Forget about the bullet-ridden hell-storms or raffish derring-do of your conventional second world war picture: this is a world of cold,...
