L’Armée des ombres

Name: L’Armée des ombres
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Released: 1969

Jean-Pierre Melville

French Resistance Nazi occupation Betrayal and revenge Prison escape Espionage and paranoia

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Synopsis

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

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J'ai voulu faire un film de guerre avec l'âme d'un film de gangsters, un peu comme Melville avec L'Armée des ombres.

I wanted to make a war film with the soul of a gangster film, somewhat like Melville with L'Armée des ombres.

— Quentin Tarantino · Libération

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