Army of Shadows (1969)
- Starring:
- Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Category:
- War
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In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons. As they do so, the hero is again captured and his partner killed. Again the hero escapes just before he is executed. He then finds that a female partner has been captured. To avoid having her daughter forced to work in a Nazi brothel, the woman has informed upon the others. She is then released and subsequently killed by another Resistance fighter for revenge. The screenplay is based on Joseph Kessel's novel and became filmmaker Jean Pierre Melville's magnum opus. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 145 mins
Complete Cast:
- Lino Ventura - Gerbier
- Jean-Pierre Cassel - Jean-Francois
- Serge Reggiani - Barber
- Christian Barbier - Le Bison
- Albert Michel - Gendarm
- Jean-Marie Robain - Baron de Ferte-Talloire
- Georges Sellier - Colonel Jarret
- Alain Mottet - Commander of the camp
- Alain Libolt - Dounat
- Paul Meurisse - Luc
- Simone Signoret - Mathilde
- Claude Mann - Le Masque
- Paul Crauchet - Felix
- Jeanne Perez
- Hubert DeLapparent - Aubert
- Marco Perrin - Octave Bonnafous
- Alain Dekock - Legrain
- Director(s):
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Writer(s):
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Producer(s):
- Jacques Dorfmann
- Categories:
- War
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- 2006 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Special Citation
- 2006 - National Society of Film Critics - Film Heritage Award
- 2006 - New York Film Critics Society - Best Foreign Language Film
