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Jun 19, 1970 · 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.
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- Drama, War
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1970-06-19
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.
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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. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable ...
- Philippe Gerbier
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.
1 day ago · Written and directed by new wave filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, ‘Army of Shadows’ is based on the wartime novel by Joseph Kessel. We follow Philippe Gerbier (played by the effortlessly ...
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. The image was, this French...
May 18, 2024 · Fellow resistant Joseph Kessel had published Army of Shadows (1943) in the meantime, a deep dive into day-to-day clandestine living in the fight against the Nazi occupiers. Melville set his sights on the journalist’s novel, with plans of adapting it for the silver screen.
