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Army of Shadows
(1969)
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Lino Ventura | ... | |
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Paul Meurisse | ... | |
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Jean François Jardie
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Claude Mann | ... |
Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
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Felix Lepercq
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Christian Barbier | ... |
Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
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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
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Release Date:
12 September 1969 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Army of Shadows See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$12,620 (USA) (28 April 2006)Gross:
$741,733 (USA) (20 April 2007)Company Credits
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Legrain: ...You're a communist?
Philippe Gerbier: No. But I can still have comrades.
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(uncredited)
Music by Edgar M. Sampson
Played at the serviceman's club in London
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In the dubbed Italian version for the film, Lino Ventura is dubbed by Emilio Cigoli; Simone Signoret by 'Adriana De Roberto' and Paul Meurisee by Roberto Villa. See more »Goofs
In the sequence when Mathilde exits the car and silently waves goodbye to Gerbier, in response he rolls his window up completely, yet in the very next shot his window remains open as the car drives away. See more »Quotes
Philippe Gerbier: See you later, Comrade.Legrain: ...You're a communist?
Philippe Gerbier: No. But I can still have comrades.
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Soundtracks
"Stompin' at the Savoy"(uncredited)
Music by Edgar M. Sampson
Played at the serviceman's club in London
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"L'Armée des ombres" (1969) was shown in the U.S as "Army of Shadows." The film is co-written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
The time is 1942 and the setting is France. Lino Ventura plays Philippe Gerbier, a high-ranking officer in the French resistance. Gerbier is intelligent, resourceful, and brave. He and his small band of urban fighters are constantly in danger of capture and torture by the Nazis. This isn't a film of rural partisans--it's a film where people meet in cafés and offices. No one knows when Nazi soldiers or Gestapo will sweep down and drag them off. No meeting is safe, and no relationship is safe either--how many people can remain silent under savage tortures that go on for days?
Although Ventura is excellent in the role, the movie is dominated by Simone Signoret as Mathilde--tougher and braver than any of the men, but possessing one terrible weakness.
This movie is different than most films about the French Resistance. Things don't go smoothly, they don't go well, fear is everywhere, and heroism often takes place in a prison cell where no one ever learns of it. It's fascinating, but grim.
"Army of Shadows" is a neglected film by a great director. It's definitely worth seeking out.