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L' Armee Des Ombres (Army in the Shadows) - Region 2 (French release)

L' Armee Des Ombres (Army in the Shadows) - Region 2 (French release)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

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This is very rare DVD, also known as Armata degli eroi, L' was officially released in Russia by studio "Film Prestige". Available Audio Tracks: original FRENCH and RUSSIAN (voice-over). Available Subtitles: RUSSIAN (removable). This is NTSC DVD (USA & Canada) without region coding, playable on any DVD player in North America. ......................................................... France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... This non-spectacular movie (do not expect any Rambo or Robin Hood) shows us rigorously and austerely the everyday of the French Resistants: their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out... Both writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to this "Army in the Shadows".

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #150039 in DVD
  • Published on: 2004
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
  • Formats: PAL, Color, Collector's Edition, Import
  • Original language: French
  • Subtitled in: Russian
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Running time: 137 minutes

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Superior war drama!5
During the French resistance, a fighter escapes from Gestapo headquarters; he returns to Marsella just to find there is traitor between the group. he finds and throttle him.
They decide to go to Lyons to rescue another important member, but the attempt fails, his partner dies and then he is captured again. But a female partner is forced to confess; otherwise her daughter will be sent to work in a Nazi brothal; but the Resistance in the apparent merciless but implacable honor code has to kill her for revenge the death of the members.
A complex vision of the French epic resitance. A potent and somehow forgotten film by the great audiences.
The cast is splendid and the director is one of the most distinguished Franch filmmakers: Jean Pierre Melville; the same director of the red Circle, Bob Le flambeur, Le doulos, Le samourai, Les enfants terribles and The silence of the sea.
Don' t miss this gem!