Army of Shadows
(1969)
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Army of Shadows
(1969)
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Lino Ventura | ... | |
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Paul Meurisse | ... | |
| Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... |
Jean François Jardie
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| Simone Signoret | ... | ||
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Claude Mann | ... |
Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
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| Paul Crauchet | ... |
Felix Lepercq
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Christian Barbier | ... |
Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
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| Serge Reggiani | ... |
The hairdresser
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André Dewavrin | ... | |
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Alain Dekok | ... |
Legrain
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Alain Mottet | ... |
Commander of the camp
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Alain Libolt | ... |
Paul Dounat
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Jean-Marie Robain | ... |
Baron de Ferte Talloire
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Albert Michel | ... |
Gendarm
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Denis Sadier | ... |
Gestapo's doctor
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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". Written by Yepok
This is probably one of the best fiction movies ever made on the French resistance during Worl War II. Far from the usual romantic cliches showing handsome young men playing tricks with the Nazis and falling in love with sublime women, the substance of the movie is reality. It depicts a "shadow army" made of courageous men who are ready to sacrifice their lives but are aware of the huge cost they will eventually have to pay. It shows the cruel and sometimes inhuman choices they have to make in order to survive. This is a very useful movie that gives a real hint of what resistance truly was.