ARMY OF CRIME
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) |