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Army of Shadows

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Year of participation	2017
Program	Tributes

Producer(s)	Jacques Dorfmann
Director(s)	Jean-Pierre Melville
Script	Jean-Pierre Melville, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel
Director of Photography	Pierre Lhomme, Walter Wottitz
Production designer	Eric de Marsan
Music by	Théobald Meurisse
Sound	Jean Nény, Jacques Carrère, Alex Pront
Edit	Françoise Bonnot
Cast	Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
Production company(-ies)	Corona Fono, Roma

Synopsis

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 film 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".

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