Army of Shadows

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$861,983

France, 1942, under German occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is a French Resistance commandant. Denounced by a French collaborator, he is interned in a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and rejoins his network in Marseille, where he has the traitor executed. This movie reveals rigorously and austerely what life was like in the French Resistance: the solitude and fear of its members; their relationships with one another; the constant threat of arrest by the Gestapo; the Resistance command structure and the way its orders were carried out. Head writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville were both veterans of the "Shadow Army".

🏆 4 wins & 1 nomination total

Genres

Drama, War

Director

Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast

Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Released

19 June 1970

Runtime

2h 25m

Certificate

Not Rated

IMDb rating

8.1 / 10

Votes

27,228

Metascore

99

Rotten Tomatoes

97%

Box office

$861,983

Edition

Base