Army of Shadows (1969)
Army of Shadows (1969)

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Cast & Crew.

Lino Ventura
Philippe Gerbier

Paul Meurisse
Luc Jardie

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-François Jardie

Simone Signoret
Mathilde

Claude Mann
Claude Ullman / The Mask

Paul Crauchet
Félix Lepercq

Christian Barbier
Guillaume Vermesch / The Buffalo

Alain Dekok
Legrain

Alain Libolt
Paul Dounat

Jean-Marie Robain
Baron de La Ferté-Talloires

Albert Michel
Gendarme

Georges Sellier
Colonel Jarret du Plessis

Marco Perrin
Octave Bonnafous

Hubert de Lapparent
Aubert

Jeanne Pérez
Marie

Alain Mottet
Camp Commander

Denis Sadier
Gestapo Prison Doctor

Serge Reggiani
Hairdresser

Colin Mann
Dispatcher

Anthony Stuart
Royal Air Force Major

Gérard-Antoine Huart
Prisoner

Percival Russel
German Soldier

Michel Dacquin
Condemned

Jacques Marbeuf
German Officer

Marcel Bernier
Customs Adjutant

Gaston Meunier
Baggage Checker

Nathalie Delon
Jean-François' Friend (uncredited)

Jacques Léonard
War Camp Prisoner (uncredited)

Françoise Bonnot
Editor

Joseph Kessel
Novel

Walter Wottitz
Director of Photography

Jean-Pierre Melville
Director / Screenplay
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Details.
Release DateSeptember 10, 1969
Original NameL'Armée des ombres
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 25m
Box Office$906,133
Filming LocationsStudios de la Victorine · Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis · 16th arrondissement of Paris · Lyon, France
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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. It is an adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which mixes Kessel's experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictional versions of other Resistance members.
The film follows a small group of Resistance fighters as they move between safe houses, work with the Allied militaries, kill informers, and attempt to evade the capture and execution that they know is their most likely fate. While portraying its characters as heroic, the film presents a bleak, unromantic view of the Resistance.
At the time of its initial release in France, Army of Shadows was not well-received, as, in the wake of the events of May 1968, French critics denounced it for its perceived glorification of Charles de Gaulle. American art-film programmers of the time took their cues from Cahiers du cinéma, which attacked the film on this basis, so it was not released in the United States until 2006, after a reappraisal of the film and Melville's oeuvre published in Cahiers du cinéma in the mid-1990s led to its restoration and re-release. The film was critically acclaimed in the U.S. and appeared on many critics' lists of the best films of 2006.
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