The Army of Shadows (1969)

 ●  French ● 2 hrs 25 mins

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A account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Did you know? During the shooting of this film, Lino Ventura and the director Jean-Pierre Melville did not speak to each other. They only communicated through assistants. Read More
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as Philippe Gerbier
as Mathilde
as Legrain
as Paul Dounat
as Commander of the camp
as Gendarm
as Colonel Passy
as RAF Major
as Guillaume Vermersch dit
as Claude Ullmann dit
as Dispatcher
as Gestapo's Doctor
Supporting Actor
as Colonel Jarret du Plessis
as Octave Bonnafous
as Cellmate
as Anonymous Patriot
as Felix Lepercq
as Luc Jardie
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actor
as The hairdresser

Direction

Assistant Director

Production

Producer
Production Company

Writers

Novelist

Camera and Electrical

Director of Photography
Still Photographer

Music

Music Director
Music Editor

Sound

Sound Designer
Boom Operator

Art

Production Designer
Prop Master

Costume and Wardrobe

Costume Designer

Editorial

Makeup and Hair

Makeup Artist
Film Type:
Feature
Language:
French
Spoken Languages:
English, German
Colour Info:
Black & White
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital, Mono
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Stereoscopy:
No
Goofs:
Continuity
In the sequence when Mathilde exits the car and silently waves goodbye to Gerbier, in response he rolls his window up completely, yet in the very next shot his window remains open as the car drives away.

Revealing Mistakes
When Gerbier is being taken to the concentration camp at the beginning of the film, and the guard driving the police van makes an unexpected stop at the house, it is clear that the rain is only falling in front of the camera and directly on the van. Only a few feet away, there are no raindrops hitting the mud or the puddles of water.
Trivia:
During the shooting of this film, Lino Ventura and the director Jean-Pierre Melville did not speak to each other. They only communicated through assistants.

In the dubbed Italian version for the film, Lino Ventura is dubbed by Emilio Cigoli; Simone Signoret by Adriana de Roberto and Paul Meurisse by Roberto Villa.