The Army of Shadows (1969)

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville · Cinematography by Walter Wottitz, Pierre Lhomme

145 min64 frames

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Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

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