Army of crime [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Guédiguian, Robert, 1953- film director, film producer, screenwriter.

Le Péron, Serge, 1948- screenwriter.

Taurand, Gilles, screenwriter.

Ledoyen, Virginie, 1976- actor.

Abkarian, Simon, actor.

Stévenin, Robinson, actor.

Publication Date:

2011

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerrilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.

General Note:

From a original idea by Serge Le Péron.

DVD release of the 2009 motion picture.

Special features; interview with director, Robert Guediguian ; interview with Simon Abkarian and Virginie Ledoyen; original theatrical trailer, stills gallery.

Performers:

Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stevenin, Grégoire LePrince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Yann Tregouët, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin.

Technical Details:

DVD-video; NTSC; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, 16x9; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

Subject Term:

Assassins -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.

Geographic Term:

Paris (France) -- Drama.

Genre:

War films.

Fiction films.