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Certificate 12A

Cast Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Jean-Pierre Cassel Simone Signoret

Directors Jean-Pierre Melville

Screenwriters Jean-Pierre Melville

Running Time 145 minutes

Army In The Shadows
Brilliantly restrained portrait of life in the French Resistance from the master Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Plot
1942, and France is occupied by the Nazi army. Philippe Gerbier (Ventura) is to all outward appearances, a civil engineer. He has a double life with the French Resistance. Betrayed by a traitor, he is imprisoned, and sets about firstly escaping, then exacting his revenge.

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