L'armée des ombres Army of shadows
by
Ventura, Lino, 1919-1987
Title
:
L'armée des ombres Army of shadows
Author
:
Ventura, Lino, 1919-1987
ISBN
:
715515023726
9781934121481
Publication Information
:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Physical Description
:
2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (41 p. : ports. ; 19 cm.)
Series
:
The Criterion collection ; 385
Criterion collection; 385.
General Note
:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
Based on the novel by Joseph Kessell.
Disc 1 contains: New high-definition digital transfer of the 2004 restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme and Studio Canal.
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau; new interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot; archival video excerpts, including on-set footage and interviews with Mellville, cast members, writer Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters; "Jean-Pierre Melville et 'L'armâee des ombres'" (2005), a short program on the director and his film; "Le journal de las Râesistance" (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied France; and a film restoration demonstration by Lhomme.
Contents
:
Booklet: Cast and credits -- Out of the shadows / Amy Taubin -- Melville's French Resistance / Robert O. Paxton -- Melville on Melville: army of shadows / Interview by Rui Nogueria -- About the transfer.
Abstract
:
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.
Personal Subject
:
Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979. Armâee des ombres.
Subject Term
:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Drama.
Guerrillas -- France -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Drama.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Mouvements de râesistance -- France -- Films.
Guâerillas -- France -- Films.
Longs mâetrages -- France.
Longs mâetrages -- Italie.
Geographic Term
:
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Drama.
France -- History -- 1940-1945, German occupation -- Drama.
France -- Histoire -- 1940-1945 (Occupation allemande)
Genre
:
Feature films.
War films.
War -- Feature.
Film adaptations.
Added Author
:
Ventura, Lino, 1919-1987
Meurisse, Paul, 1913-1979.
Cassel, Jean-Pierre, 1932-2007.
Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985
Crauchet, Paul.
Mann, Claude.
Barbier, Christian, 1924-
Reggiani, Serge.
Dorfmann, Jacques.
Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.
L'Homme, Pierre, 1930-
Bonnot, Franðcoise, 1939-
De Marsan, Eric.
Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979. Armâee des ombres.
Added Corporate Author
:
Janus Films.
Films Corona.
Rialto Pictures LLC.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Studio Canal.
Added Title
:
Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'armâee des ombres."
Journal de la Râesistance.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | Audio-visual Material | 33168023659994 | 791.4372 A741 2007 | 1 |