The Army of Shadows

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Director:Jean-Pierre Melville
Length:143 minutes
Genre:Drama, Vojnový

The Army of Shadows

L’Armée des ombres; Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, versions: OR,ES, languages: fra

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville • Scenario: Jean-Pierre Melville • Kameraman: Pierre Lhomme, Walter Wottitz • Actors: Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Craucher, Christian Barbier

In 1942, French engineer and Resistant cell leader Philippe Gerbier is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and together with Felix Lepercq and Resistance hit-man Claude "The Mask" Ullmann, they kidnap the traitor that gave him away to the Germans and execute him. Gerbier travels to London to discuss Allied logistical support for the Resistance; meanwhile, Felix is captured by the Germans and tortured. Resistance members Mathilde, Guillaume "Bison" Vermersch, and the Mask try unsuccessfully to rescue him. But Jean François Jardie, brother of Resistance commandant Luc Jardie, sacrifices himself to deliver a cyanide pill to Felix in prison. As the months go by the organization continues its clandestine operations until the day a captured member, tortured by the Germans, becomes a threat to the mission. He will have to be assassinated.

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Photo source : © Studio Canal

Length: 143 min

Year: 1969

Country of origin:

  • France
  • Italy

Language version:

OR - Original version (french)
ES - English subtitles

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville • Scenario: Jean-Pierre Melville • Kameraman: Pierre Lhomme, Walter Wottitz • Actors: Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Craucher, Christian Barbier

In 1942, French engineer and Resistant cell leader Philippe Gerbier is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and together with Felix Lepercq and Resistance hit-man Claude "The Mask" Ullmann, they kidnap the traitor that gave him away to the Germans and execute him. Gerbier travels to London to discuss Allied logistical support for the Resistance; meanwhile, Felix is captured by the Germans and tortured. Resistance members Mathilde, Guillaume "Bison" Vermersch, and the Mask try unsuccessfully to rescue him. But Jean François Jardie, brother of Resistance commandant Luc Jardie, sacrifices himself to deliver a cyanide pill to Felix in prison. As the months go by the organization continues its clandestine operations until the day a captured member, tortured by the Germans, becomes a threat to the mission. He will have to be assassinated.

>imdb.com

Photo source : © Studio Canal

Year: 1969

Country of origin:

  • France
  • Italy

Language version:

OR - Original version (french)
ES - English subtitles