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Army of Shadows(Movie, 1969)

Original title: "L'Armée des ombres" (French/FR)
FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 25min | Genres: War, Drama, Thriller
Army of ShadowsRating: 4.0/5 (with 260260 votes)
Army of Shadows (French: L'Armée des ombres; Italian: L'armata degli eroi) is a 1969 Franco-Italian World War II suspense-drama film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret. It is an adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which mixes Kessel's experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictional versions of other Resistance members. The film follows a small group of Resistance fighters as they move between safe houses, work with the Allied militaries, kill informers, and attempt to evade the capture and execution that they know is their most likely fate. While portraying its characters as heroic, the film presents a bleak, unromantic view of the Resistance. At the time of its initial release in France, Army of Shadows w... ()
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"Army of Shadows" is currently available on 2 providers. Army of Shadows can be rented on Amazon Instant Video and Apple / iTunes Store (SD/HD/4K) or purchased on Amazon Instant Video and Apple / iTunes Store (as a download from the website or as a Blu-ray Disc/DVD).

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Available languages: German, French
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 2h 24min
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Duration: 2h 19min
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: German, French
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 2h 24min
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Apple / iTunes Store
Duration: 2h 19min
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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD Blu-ray

About Army of Shadows

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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Additional Information

Production countries: France, Italy
Plays in: London, Paris, Lyon, Marseille
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 22 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/10/1969
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El ejército de las sombras"
"Армия от сенки"
"O Exército das Sombras"
"地下纵队"
"影子军团"
"影子军队"
"Maanalainen armeija"
"Okända hjältar"
"L'armée des ombres"
"The Army in the Shadows"
"I megali stratia ton afanon iroon"
"L'armata degli eroi"
"Kage no guntai"
"影の軍隊"
"그림자 군단"
"Šešeliu armija"
"De schimmen"
"Een Leger Vecht in de Schaduw"
"Skyggenes armé"
"Armata umbrelor"
"Armija senki"
"Армия теней"
"影子軍隊"
"Army In The Shadows"
"Army.of.Shadows"
"The Army of Shadows"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:18504, Added: 02/22/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024