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Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel, the film starts in October 1942 and follows a few months in the lives of resistance fighters gathered around Philippe Gerbier (played by Lino Ventura) a quiet, soft-spoken civic engineer who is actually one of resistance's important leaders. Following his escape from the hands of the Vichy government and the Gestapo, Gerbier orders the killing of a man who betrayed him and later accompanies philosopher Luc Jardin (played by Paul Meurisse), his superior within resistance movement, to London. From there he parachutes back to France to help organise various resistance activities and notices the extraordinary work of Mathilde (played by Simone Signoret) a strong and ingenious woman capable of combating Germans in the most ingenious ways possible. However, his organisation will have to endure many difficult ordeals, demanding some tough personal choices from their members.

Director:

Jean-Pierre Melville [2],

Starring:

Jean-Pierre Cassel [4], Simone Signoret [2], Paul Meurisse [2], Lino Ventura [2], Paul Crauchet [1], Claude Mann [1],

Screen Formats:

Widescreen 1.85:1

Subtitles:

Castellano , Czech , Danish , Dutch , English , Finnish , German , Hungarian , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese , Swedish

Language and Sound:

French Dolby Digital Stereo
Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo

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