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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 1970 (re-released in 2024) \u2013 145\u2032 \u2013 DRAMA, FILMS & LITERATURE, CLASSIC, WAR, PERIOD & HISTORY. The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean-Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable Simone Signoret star as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple with their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime. Long underappreciated in France and unseen in the United States, the atmospheric and gripping thriller Army of Shadows is now widely recognized as the summit of Melville’s career, channeling the exquisite minimalism of<\/span><\/em> his gangster films to create an unsparing tale of defiance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.<\/em><\/p>\n ARMY OF SHADOWS | 1970 (re-released in 2024) \u2013 145\u2032 \u2013 DRAMA, FILMS & LITERATURE, CLASSIC, WAR, PERIOD & HISTORY. Written by: Jean-Pierre Melville. Based on the Book by: Joseph Kessel. Directed by:\u00a0Jean-Pierre\u00a0Melville. Starring:\u00a0Lino Ventura,\u00a0Simone Signoret,\u00a0Paul Crauchet, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse, Alain Dekok, Albert Michel, Denis Sadier, Claude Mann, Serge Reggiani, Nathalie Delon. Official Selection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,119,43,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-drama","category-films-literature","category-history","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Jean-Pierre Melville.
\nBased on the Book by: Joseph Kessel.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Jean-Pierre\u00a0Melville.
\nStarring:\u00a0Lino Ventura,\u00a0Simone Signoret,\u00a0Paul Crauchet, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse, Alain Dekok, Albert Michel, Denis Sadier, Claude Mann, Serge Reggiani, Nathalie Delon.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Cannes Classic).
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"