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User Rating:
7.1/10   147 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Serge Le Péron (writer)
Gilles Taurand (writer)
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Release Date:
16 September 2009 (France) more
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Plot:
The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation... more | add synopsis
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Overlong and uninvolving more (7 total)

Cast

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Simon Abkarian ... Missak Manouchian

Virginie Ledoyen ... Mélinée Manouchian
Robinson Stévenin ... Marcel Rayman
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet ... Thomas Elek
Lola Naymark ... Monique
Yann Trégouët ... Le Commissaire David
Ariane Ascaride ... Madame Elek
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ... Inspecteur Pujol
Ivan Franek ... Feri Boczov
Adrien Jolivet ... Henri Krasucki
Horatiu Malaele ... Monsieur Dupont
Mirza Halilovic ... Petra
Olga Legrand ... Olga Bancic
Esteban Carvajal-Alegria ... Narek Tavkorian
Léopold Szabatura ... Simon Rayman
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Also Known As:
The Army of Crime (International: English title)
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Runtime:
139 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Portugal:M/12

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St. Matthew Passion more

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4 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Overlong and uninvolving, 3 October 2009
4/10
Author: raraavis-2 from United Kingdom

Another résistance tale, excellent settings, clothes, etc., but a very flat plot that never grips you. That, plus the actual length of the film make it feel eternal. The theoretical "good guys" - the résisrance, are mostly communists, quite a few of them rather sinister. One feels that their ideas are very similar to those of the Nazis they're trying to fight and, frankly, it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. And,like so many French films, this one tries to rewrite history. Because, much as the French hate to admit it, most of the population just wanted to survive the war and disliked the résistants, who provoked dangerous German retaliation. Of course, after the war EVERYBODY turned out to have been in the résistance and had behaved heroically. All in all, a disappointing movie. Much better stuff has been filmed about that period of French history.

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