TY  - ADVS
AU  - Barbier,Christian
AU  - Bonnot,Françoise
AU  - Cassel,Jean-Pierre
AU  - Crauchet,Paul
AU  - Demarsan,Eric
AU  - Dorfmann,Jacques
AU  - Kessel,Joseph
AU  - L'Homme,Pierre
AU  - Mann,Claude
AU  - Melville,Jean-Pierre
AU  - Meurisse,Paul
AU  - Reggiani,Serge
AU  - Signoret,Simone
AU  - Ventura,Lino
ED  - Centre national de la cinématographie (France).
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm)
ED  - Films Corona.
ED  - Fono Roma (Firm)
ED  - Janus Films.
ED  - Rialto Pictures LLC.
ED  - Studio Canal.
TI  - L'armée des ombres: Army of shadows 
T2  - The Criterion collection
SN  - 1934121487
PY  - 2007///
CY  - [Irvington, NY]
PB  - Criterion Collection
KW  - Kessel, Joseph,
KW  - Guerrillas
KW  - France
KW  - Drama
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Collaborationists
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - History
KW  - German occupation, 1940-1945
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - Film adaptations
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
KW  - War films
N1  - Booklet contains the essays "Out of the shadows" by Amy Taubin, "Melville's French Resistance" by Robert O. Paxton, and "Melville on Melville: 'Army of Shadows'" interview [with Jean-Pierre Melville] by Rui Nogueria; D'apres le livre de [After the novel by] Joseph Kessell; Originally released as a French motion picture in 1969; Disc one the film; Opening -- Gerbier -- Internment -- Comrade -- Gestapo -- Hôtel Majestic -- Quick shave -- Job in Marseilles -- Traitor -- Jean-François -- Talent agency in Lyon -- Special delivery -- Saint Luc and Little Jean -- Midnight passage -- London -- News of Félix -- Parachute drop -- Disguises and hideouts -- Rescue preparations -- Denounced -- Transport for Félix -- "You better lie low" -- Certain death -- Isolation -- News of Mathilde -- "Nothing's sacred anymore" -- Color bars; (145 min.) (1969); Commentary [optional audio feature]; Trailers (5 min.); Disc two the supplements; Jean-Pierre Melville, cinéaste [featurette]; (5 min.) (1968) --; Revisiting a masterpiece : Pierre Lhomme and "Army of Shadows" [featurette]; (14 min.) (2007) --; Restoration footage; (7 min.) --; Françoise Bonnot : Editing with Melville [featurette]; (11 min.) (2007) --; L'invité du dimanche: Jean-Pierre Melville [featurette, b&w]; (30 min.) (1969) --; Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'armée des ombres"; (30 min.) (2002) --; Le journal de la Résistance [featurette, b&w]; (34 min.) (1944) --; Simone Signoret and Lucie Aubrac [featurette, col.]; (6 min.) (1984) --; Ouvrez les guillemets [featurette, b&w]; (24 min.) (1973); Directeur de la photographie, Pierre Lhomme ; montage [editor], Françoise Bonnot ; musique, Eric De Marsan ; decors, Théobald Meurisse ; conseiller aux dialogues ét́rangers, Howard Vernon; Lino Ventura (Philippe Gerbier), Paul Meurisse (Luc Jardie), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Jean-François Jardie), Simone Signoret (Mathilde), Claude Mann (Claude 'Le Masque'), Paul Crauchet (Félix), Christian Barbier ('Le Bison'), Serge Reggiani, André Dewavrin, Alain Dekok, Alain Mottet, Alain Libolt, Jean-Marie Robain, Albert Michel, Denis Sadier, Georges Sellier, Marco Perrin, Hubert de Lapparent, Colin Mann, Anthony Stuart, Michel Fretault
N2  - L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes can save their own country only by cutting themselves apart from it. Entangled in the political turmoil engulfing France in the wake of May '68--as a result received poorly there--the film was not distributed in the US until 2006
ER  -