The Army of Crime
Synopsis
In a Paris occupied by the Germans, the worker poet Missak Manouchian becomes the leader of a group of very young Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Spaniards, Italians, and Armenians determined to fight to liberate the France that they love, the one of Human Rights.
Underground, risking their lives, they become heroes.
The attacks of these foreign partisans plague the Nazis and the collaborators. So the French police goes wild, increasing their officers on the beat, tailing possible suspects, using blackmail and torture, and encouraging anonymous denunciations.
Twenty-two men and a woman will be condemned to death in February 1944. In a final propaganda campaign, they well be presented as an Army of Crime and their faces, inset against red backgrounds, will be posted on walls throughout the cities and towns of France.
These immigrants, who died for the nation, enter into legend.
This film recounts their moving and tragic story.
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Actors (45)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Agat Films - Ex nihilo
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, France 3 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : STUDIOCANAL
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producers : Dominique Barneaud, Marc Bordure, Robert Guédiguian
- Adaptation : Gilles Taurand
- Screenwriters : Serge Le Péron, Gilles Taurand, Robert Guédiguian
- Dialogue Writer : Gilles Taurand
- Director of Photography : Pierre Milon
- Music Composer : Alexandre Desplat
- Assistant directors : Jean-Christophe Delpias, Sophie Groussin, Charlotte Selman
- Editor : Bernard Sasia
- Sound Recordist : Laurent Lafran
- Costume designer : Juliette Chanaud
- Original idea : Serge Le Péron
- Assistant Operators : Vincent Buron, Marie Demaison
- Production Manager : Malek Hamzaoui
- Press Attaché (film) : Marie-Christine Damiens
- Sound editor : Valérie Meffre
- Production Designer : Michel Vandestien
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Lamps
- Still Photographer : Stéphanie Braunschweig
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, War
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2008
- French release : 16/09/2009
- Runtime : 2 h 19 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 119.984
- Visa issue date : 16/09/2009
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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