Philippe Gerbier
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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.
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
May 21, 2006 · Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows” is about members of the French Resistance who persist in the face of despair. Rarely has a film shown so truly that place in the heart where hope lives with fatalism.
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp.
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- Lino Ventura
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- War, History, Drama
Apr 28, 2006 · Jean-Pierre Melville's ''Army of Shadows'' opens with the startling image of German soldiers marching down the Champs-Élysées, framed by the Arc de Triomphe.
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. 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.
