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Army of Shadows
BackYear 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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