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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.
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 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.
This adaptation of the book by Joseph Kessel paints an understated, unglamorous portrait of the French Resistance during World World II. Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura ...
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.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Betrayal. Loyalty. Collaboration. Resistance. Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp.
