L'armée des ombres Army of shadows
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.
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Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'armâee des ombres."
Journal de la Râesistance.