| Description |
2 videodiscs : color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Note |
Original StudioCanal Image/Fono Rome film 1969. |
| Contents |
Booklet: Cast and credits -- Out of the shadows / Amy Taubin -- Melville's French Resistance / Robert O. Paxton -- Melville on Melville: army of shadows / Interview by Rui Nogueria -- About the transfer. |
| Performer |
Lino Ventura ; Simone Signoret ; Paul Crauchet ; Serge Reggiani ; Alain Dekok ; Alain Libolt ; Albert Michel ; Georges Sellier ; Hubert de Lapparent ; Anthony Stuart ; Gerard-Antoine Huart ; Michel Dacquin ; Pierre Vaudier ; Franz Sauer ; Nathalie Delon ; Paul Meurisse ; Claude Mann ; Christian Barbier ; Andre Dewavrin ; Alain Mottet ; Jean-Marie Robain ; Denis Sadier ; Marco Perrin ; Colin Mann ; Michel Fretault ; Percival Russel ; Jeanne Perez ; Jacque Marbeuf ; Adrien Cayla-Legrand. |
| Summary |
Intrepid French Resistance fighters grapple with their own brand of honor in their battle against Hitler's regime. France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed. The everyday life of the French Resistants. Both writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to it. |
| Credits |
Director, Jean-Pierre Melville ; Producer, Jacques Dorfmann ; Music, Eric Demarsan ; Editor, Francoise Bonnot ; Director of Photography, Pierre Lhomme. |
| Note |
Disc one: High-definition digital transfer of the 2004 restoration. Optional Dolby digital stereo 2.0 soundtrack. Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau. Disc two: Interviews with Pierre Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot. Archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Melville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters. Jean-Pierre Melville et "L;armee des ombres (2005), a short program on the director and his film. Le journal de la Resistance (1944) a rare short docuentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German -occupied France. Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme. Plus a booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert O. Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira's Melville on Melville. |
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Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen. |
| Language |
French with optional English Subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Resistance movements, War.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Underground movements.
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| Added Author |
Janis Films.
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Rialto Pictures LLC.
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Studio Canal Image/Fono Roma.
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Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973, direction.
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Dorfmann, Jacques, production.
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Ventura, Lino, 1919-1987.
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Meurisse, Paul, 1913-1979.
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Cassel, Jean-Pierre, 1932-2007.
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Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985.
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Mann, Claude.
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Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979.
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Taubin, Amy.
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Paxton, Robert O.
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Nogueria, Rui.
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Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973,
Melville et l'armee des ombres 2005.
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| Added Title |
Journal de la Resistance 1944.
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