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ARMY OF CRIME

by Robert Guédiguian

synopsis

Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and émigrés in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS General, eventually reaches Berlin. Under the orders of the Gestapo, French police and collaborators hound Manouchian and his Résistants until, to escape torture, one of their associates denounces the whole group. After a show trial, the twenty-three heroes are brought to face a firing squad…

international title: Army of Crime
original title: L'Armée du crime
country: France
sales agent: StudioCanal
year: 2009
genre: fiction
directed by: Robert Guédiguian
release date: FR 16/09/2009, BE 23/09/2009
screenplay: Robert Guédiguian, Gilles Taurand, Serge Le Péron
cast: Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride, Adrien Jolivet
cinematography by: Pierre Milon
film editing: Bernard Sasia
art director: Michel Vandestien
costumes designer: Juliette Chanaud
music: Alexandre Desplat
producer: Dominique Barneaud, Robert Guédiguian
production: Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, StudioCanal, France 3 Cinéma
distributor: StudioCanal, Cinéart (BE)

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