Army of Crime
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Simon Abkarian, Lola Neymark, Robinson Stévenin, Virginie Ledoyen & Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet | |
Directed by | Robert Guediguian | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Guediguian, Serge Leperon & Gilles Taurand | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Story by | Serge Leperon | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Milon |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Army of Shadows may be a revisionist and overly romantic depiction of the French Resistance during WWII, but at least it's a compelling fairy tale, something that cannot be said about The Army of Crime.
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House Next Door
Rating: B --
Robert Guediguian makes a fascinating Altmanesque character study of a mixed group of foreign resistance fighters (called the "FTP-MOI") working in Paris to undermine the Nazi-led removal of Jews during World War II.
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ColeSmithey.com
A solid, spellbinding drama based closely on real history, which along the way offers a not-so-subtle commentary on the diverse, immigrant-rich society of contemporary France.
Salon.com
Rating: 7/10 --
A young and talented cast put energy into this timeless story of the citizen warriors of occupied France.
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Monsters and Critics
Virginie Ledoyen stars as Missak's impossibly lovely, stalwart wife, and a troupe of supporting players give life to the men and women who died not for the miserable France of that moment, but for the vision of what it could be.
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Village Voice
Rating: 2/5 --
There's no sense of the oppression France felt under Nazi rule. It's all just play-acting in period-specific attire. You can almost hear the AD calling lunch.
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Time Out
... Guédiguian punctures a lot of myths about the face-and the motives-of the French resistance.
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Product Description:
A daring band of rebels takes on Nazi forces in Europe in this wartime drama from director Robert Guédiguian. Born in Armenia, Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) had settled in France by the time World War II broke out; a Socialist who stood in fierce opposition to the Axis forces occupying his country, he and a handful of other leftists formed the FTP-MOI, a faction of the French Resistance comprised of immigrants who came to France before the war. Working beside Manouchian was his wife, Mélinée (Virginie Ledoyen), a poet-turned-underground fighter; Marcel (Robinson Stévenin), a Jewish volunteer who is an excellent shot with a rifle; and Thomas (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), a passionate Marxist with a skill for making bombs. Along with several other activists, the FTP-MOI wage a propaganda campaign against the Nazis while targeting selected Axis leaders for execution. But despite their cunning and talent, Manouchian and his partners find it difficult to keep their work a secret, and in time they're found out by a ruthless detective (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) with the Vichy police. L'ARMÉE DU CRIME (aka THE ARMY OF CRIME) was based on the true story of a French resistance group dubbed "the Army of Crime" in Vichy propaganda pieces.
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- UPC: 738329072025
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