The Army of Crime

Director: Robert Guediguian
Writer: Robert Guediguian, Serge Le Peron, Gilles Taurand
Cast: Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stevenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Yann Tregouet, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 2010
Distributor: Studio Canal
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Synopsis: 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... [Synopsis courtesy of the Festival de Cannes]

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Lorber Films to Dispatch "Army of Crime"

French production company Studio Canal has announced from Berlin that its film, director Robert Guediguian's "Army of Crime" ("L'armée du crime"), has been picked up by Lorber Films, an arm of Kino Lorber, Inc., for U.S. distribution. "Army of Crime" is the rarely told story of immigrant French Res...
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