L'armée des ombres AKA Army of shadows (1969) - classic French war drama directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann and Christian Barbier
Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 144 min
Language: French/German/English
Country: France/Italy
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/
Cast
Lino Ventura ... Philippe Gerbier
Paul Meurisse ... Luc Jardie
Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Jean François Jardie
Simone Signoret ... Mathilde
Claude Mann ... Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
Paul Crauchet ... Felix Lepercq
Christian Barbier ... Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
Serge Reggiani ... The hairdresser
André Dewavrin ... Colonel Passy
Alain Dekok ... Legrain
Description: In 1942, French engineer and Resistant cell leader Philippe Gerbier is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and together with Felix Lepercq and Resistance hit-man Claude "The Mask" Ullmann, they kidnap the traitor that gave him away to the Germans and execute him. Gerbier travels to London to discuss Allied logistical support for the Resistance; meanwhile, Felix is captured by the Germans and tortured. Resistance members Mathilde, Guillaume "Bison" Vermersch, and the Mask try unsuccessfully to rescue him. But Jean François Jardie, brother of Resistance commandant Luc Jardie, sacrifices himself to deliver a cyanide pill to Felix in prison. As the months go by the organization continues its clandestine operations until the day a captured member, tortured by the Germans, becomes a threat to the mission...
Screens:
https://workupload.com/file/dnfjqSDpZkr
Video and audio information:
Video : 3.79 GB, 3776 Kbps, 24 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 90/82 MB (main/commentary), 88/83 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/q channel(s), 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR
Subtitles (English, French (including hearing impaired), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, posters and screenshots included
Double audio track information
This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and the other is commentary by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track, main on Track 1 and commentary on Track 2)
