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Mar 23, 2016 · A French film somewhat contemporary to Army of Shadows, Francois Truffaut’s 1962 New Wave classic Jules and Jim, offered this epigram for life during wartime: “The tragedy of war is that it deprives a man of his own personal battle.”
Army of Shadows: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret. An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
- (26K)
- Drama, War
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1970-06-19
Army of Shadows. The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean-Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance.
- Philippe Gerbier
Where to watch Army of Shadows (1969) starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. In the shadows of Nazi-occupied France, Philippe Gerbier endures betrayal and imprisonment, but escapes to rejoin the Resistance in Marseille.
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Not Rated
- September 12, 1969
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
- (37.9K)
- Fono Roma, Les Films Corona
- Jean-Pierre Melville
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Army of Shadows (French: L'Armée des ombres; Italian: L'armata degli eroi) is a 1969 Franco-Italian World War II suspense-drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret.