Army of Shadows (1969)
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- 140 mins
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Army of Shadows
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
Complete Cast of Army of Shadows:
Jean-Pierre Cassel also in The Bear and the Doll , La Rupture , Congorama , Love at the Top , La Truite
Simone Signoret also in Gunman in the Streets , Thérèse Raquin , Casque D'Or , Diabolique , Ship of Fools
Serge Reggiani also in Casque D'Or , Le Doulos , The Leopard , Lord Jim
Christian Barbier also in La Vie de Château
Paul Crauchet also in Flic Story , Le Cercle Rouge , The Grocer's Son , La Guerre Est Finie , Un Flic
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