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Army of shadows = L'armée des ombres /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Publisher: [UK] : BFI, Description: 1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (18 pages : color, illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

Army of shadows
Title on disc label and container: Army of Shadows a Jean-Pierre Melville film
L'armée des ombres

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

Other classification:

AP 51235

Production credits:

Director of photography, Pierre Lhomme ; editor, Francoi̧se Bonnot ; music, Eric Demarsan ; produced by Jacques Dorfmann ; screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Melville ; directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

Cast: Lino Ventura (Philippe Gerbier), Paul Meurisse (Luc Jardie), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Jean-François Jardie), Simone Signoret (Mathilde), Claude Mann (Claude 'Le Masque'), Paul Crauchet (Félix), Christian Barbier ('Le Bison'), Serge Reggiani, André Dewavrin, Alain Dekok, Alain Mottet, Alain Libolt, Jean-Marie Robain, Albert Michel, Denis Sadier, Georges Sellier, Marco Perrin, Hubert de Lapparent, Colin Mann, Anthony Stuart, Michel Fretault.Summary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes can save their own country only by cutting themselves apart from it. Entangled in the political turmoil engulfing France in the wake of May '68--as a result received poorly there--the film was not distributed in the US until 2006.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0852 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050157995

Based on the novel by Joseph Kessell.

Originally released as a French motion picture in 1969.

DVD; Region 2, PAL; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.

In French with optional subtitles in English.

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Army of shadows = L'armée des ombres /