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L'Armée des ombres Army of shadows
Title
L'Armée des ombres [videorecording] = Army of shadows / Universal Pictures and Studio Canal ; Les Films Corona présentent ; produit par Jacques Dorfmann ; adaptation et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville.
Published
[London] : British Film Institute, [2006]
Physical Description
1 DVD (145 min.) : sd., col. + 1 booklet (19 p.)
Notes
Originally released in 1969.
Special features include: audio commentary by historian Ginette Vincendeau; "Le journal de la Resistance" (1945, 33 min.) documentary; "Jean-Pierre Melville, Filmmaker" (1968, 4 min.); 19-page booklet with essays by Jean-Michel Frodon and Jean-Louis Comolli..
Cinematography, Pierre Lhomme; editor, François Bonnot.
In French with English subtitles.
Summary
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
Variant and related titles
Army of shadows
Journal de la Résistance.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
May 22, 2007
Credits
Cinematography, Pierre Lhomme; editor, François Bonnot.
Cast
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Claude Mann, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani.
System details note
DVD, PAL, region 2, mono., widescreen.
Contents
Armée des ombres / directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (1969, 145 min.)
Journal de la Résistance / Liberation Committee of the French Cinema ; commentary in English by Noel Coward (1945, 33 min.)
Jean-Pierre Melville filmmaker (1968, 4 min.).
Issue number
BFIVD713
Subjects
Also listed under
Films Corona.
British Film Institute.
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