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Overview

User Rating:
8.1/10   4,674 votes
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Writers:
Jean-Pierre Melville (adaptation) and
Joseph Kessel (novel)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 September 1969 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
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Seldom Seen Human's in War and Resistance. more (52 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Lino Ventura ... Philippe Gerbier
Paul Meurisse ... Luc Jardie

Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Jean François Jardie

Simone Signoret ... Mathilde
Claude Mann ... Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
Paul Crauchet ... Felix Lepercq
Christian Barbier ... Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
Serge Reggiani ... The hairdresser
André Dewavrin ... Colonel Passy
Alain Dekok ... Legrain
Alain Mottet ... Commander of the camp
Alain Libolt ... Paul Dounat
Jean-Marie Robain ... Baron de Ferte Talloire
Albert Michel ... Gendarm
Denis Sadier ... Gestapo's doctor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Army in the Shadows
Army of Shadows (USA)
L'armata degli eroi (Italy)
The Shadow Army
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Runtime:
Spain:140 min | UK:145 min | USA:145 min | Argentina:145 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
French | German | English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono | Dolby Digital (2006 restoration)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:AA (original rating) | UK:AA (1978) | UK:12A (re-rating) (2005)

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Trivia:
For the shot depicting German soldiers marching down the Champs Elysees, Jean-Pierre Melville thought that it would be impossible to get regular Frenchmen to provide the proper marching movements. He ended up casting dancers to correctly provide the march steps he wanted from the soldiers. This shot was originally the last in the film and prints were sent to theaters with it in that place. After the first showings, Melville decided the scene was better placed at the start of the film and it was physically spliced into the new position. This apparently resulted in several missing frames in the negative. These frames were restored from another source when the 2005 digital restoration was accomplished. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: In the end, it says "dimanche 23 février 1943" (Sunday, 23rd February, 1943) even though it was a Tuesday. more
Quotes:
Philippe Gerbier: See you later, Comrade.
Legrain: ...You're a communist?
Philippe Gerbier: No. But I can still have comrades.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Broken English (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) more

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34 out of 47 people found the following comment useful.
Seldom Seen Human's in War and Resistance., 4 March 2005
10/10
Author: (ikwil@eindelijkeenwebsite.nl) from Netherlands

I saw this brilliant drama-piece a long time ago and it bound me to my chair. I couldn't move. It is so dramatic and meaningful, and full of betrayal. A choice of life and death never before so condemning in film registered as Jean Pierre Melville himself. He was here recounting his memory as a underground member.

Never before I saw a movie where betrayal had such an impact. I wanted to scream and to help them, but Melville does a little about that.

Spend a lot of nights with bad dreams and a complete loss of human insight.

This masterwork deserves the maximum score. 10*

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