Army of Shadows
(1969)
L'armée des ombres
Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer: Jean-Pierre Melville, Joseph Kessel
Language: English
Studio: Criterion Collection
Duration: 2
Rated: Unrated
DVD Release: January 2011
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".
Lino Ventura | Philippe Gerbier |
Paul Meurisse | Luc Jardie |
Simone Signoret | Mathilde |
Jean-Pierre Cassel | Jean François Jardie |
Claude Mann | Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque' |
Paul Crauchet | Felix Lepercq |
Christian Barbier | Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison' |
Serge Reggiani | The hairdresser |
André Dewavrin | Colonel Passy |
Alain Dekok | Legrain |
Alain Mottet | Commander of the camp |
Alain Libolt | Paul Dounat |
Jean-Marie Robain | Baron de Ferte Talloire |
Albert Michel | Gendarm |
Denis Sadier | Gestapo's doctor |
Georges Sellier | Colonel Jarret du Plessis |
Marco Perrin | Octave Bonnafous |
Hubert de Lapparent | Aubert, Pharmacien |
Colin Mann | Dispatcher |
Anthony Stuart | R.A.F. Major |
Michel Fretault | Anonymous Patriot |
Gérard-Antoine Huart | (as Gérard Huart) |
Percival Russel | |
Michel Dacquin | |
Jeanne Pérez | |
Pierre Vaudier | |
Jacques Marbeuf | |
Franz Sauer | |
Marcel Bernier | L'adjudant douanier |
Gaston Meunier | Controleur des bagages |
Adrien Cayla-Legrand | Général De Gaulle |
Éric Demarsan | Composer |
Pierre Lhomme | Cinematographer |
Walter Wottitz | Cinematographer |
Françoise Bonnot | Editor |
Théobald Meurisse | Production Designer |
Genre: Drama, War
Media: Blu-ray
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
IMDb: 0064040