The Army of Shadows

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-09-12

Languages:

French, German, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (13635 Reviews)

Director:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Genres:

Drama War

Cast:

Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Simone Signoret

Writer:

Joseph Kessel (novel)

Jean-Pierre Melville (adaptation)

Fullplot:

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".

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