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THE ARMY OF CRIME

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…

Directed by : Robert Guédiguian See his other films
Produced by : Robert Guédiguian
Company : AGAT FILMS & CIE
Coproduced by : STUDIO CANAL, FRANCE 3 CINEMA
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Main cast : Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark
Secondary cast : Yann Tregouet, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yvan Franek, Adrien Jolivet

Genre : Fiction
Duration : 2H19
Video Editor : Studio Canal
Year of production : 2009
Available Versions : VF / VO STF, VA / VO STA
Theatrical release date : 16/09/2009

Distributor : Studio Canal
International sales : Studio Canal
TV distribution : Studio Canal
TV Diffusion : 16/10/2010
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Awards :
Valladolid international film festival: Prix Spécial du Jury et Prix du Scénario. Prix cinéma patrimoine de Paris: Mention spéciale du Jury.

Festival selections :
Festival de Cannes, Cannes, 2009. Filmfest München, Munich, 2009. Festival Résistances, Foix, 2009. Valladolid international film festival, Valladolid, 2009. Prix cinéma patrimoine de Paris, Paris, 2009. Ankara international film festival, Ankara, 2010.