ARMY OF SHADOWS

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Synopsis:

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 Resistance: 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"

Details

Director(s):
Jean-Pierre Melville
Production Year:
1969
Distributor:
StudioCanal
Cast:
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura