Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Army of shadows
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| Other title: | Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'armée des ombres."
Journal de la Résistance.
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| Other uniform titles: | Ventura, Lino, 1919-1987.
Meurisse, Paul, 1913-1979.
Cassel, Jean-Pierre, 1932-2007
Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985
Crauchet, Paul.
Mann, Claude.
Barbier, Christian, 1924-
Reggiani, Serge.
Dorfmann, Jacques.
Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.
Lhomme, Pierre, 1930-2019
Bonnot, Françoise, 1939-2018
De Marsan, Eric.
Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979. Armée des ombres.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Janus Films.
Films Corona.
Rialto Pictures LLC
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Studio Canal.
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| ISBN: | 1934121487
9781934121481
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| Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
Based on the novel by Joseph Kessell.
Disc 1 contains: New high-definition digital transfer of the 2004 restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme and Studio Canal.
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau; new interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot; archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Mellville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters; "Jean-Pierre Melville et 'L'armée des ombres'" (2005), a short program on the director and his film; "Le journal de las Résistance" (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied France; and a film restoration demonstration by Lhomme.
Director of photography, Pierre Lhomme ; editor, Francoise Bonnot ; music, Eric De Marsan.
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Claude Mann, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital stereo.
In French with optional English subtitles.
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| Summary: | A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.
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| Standard no.: | 715515023726
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| Publisher's no.: | CC1693D Criterion Collection
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