Army of Shadows
(1969)
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Army of Shadows
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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
I saw this brilliant drama-piece a long time ago and it bound me to my chair. I couldn't move. It is so dramatic and meaningful, and full of betrayal. A choice of life and death never before so condemning in film registered as Jean Pierre Melville himself. He was here recounting his memory as a underground member.
Never before I saw a movie where betrayal had such an impact. I wanted to scream and to help them, but Melville does a little about that.
Spend a lot of nights with bad dreams and a complete loss of human insight.
This masterwork deserves the maximum score. 10*