Army of Shadows = : L'armée des Ombres

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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.
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Claude Mann, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani.
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.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital stereo.
Contents: Armée des ombres.

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Seen it before, too long and dark. submitted by Tassos on November 27, 2022, 7:42am It is about real people in WW II, and as I was watching it I realized I did see it before (but did not write a review), it is way too long and dark, but maybe it was intended.