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France, 1942, under German occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is a French Resistance commandant. Denounced by a French collaborator, he is interned in a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and rejoins his network in Marseille, where he has the traitor executed. This movie reveals rigorously and austerely what life was like in the French Resistance: the solitude and fear of its members; their relationships with one another; the constant threat of arrest by the Gestapo; the Resistance command structure and the way its orders were carried out. Head writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville were both veterans of the "Shadow Army".
In 1942, French engineer and Resistant cell leader Philippe Gerbier is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. He manages to escape, and together with Felix Lepercq and Resistance hit-man Claude "The Mask" Ullmann, they kidnap the traitor that gave him away to the Germans and execute him. Gerbier travels to London to discuss Allied logistical support for the Resistance; meanwhile, Felix is captured by the Germans and tortured. Resistance members Mathilde, Guillaume "Bison" Vermersch, and the Mask try unsuccessfully to rescue him. But Jean François Jardie, brother of Resistance commandant Luc Jardie, sacrifices himself to deliver a cyanide pill to Felix in prison. As the months go by the organization continues its clandestine operations until the day a captured member, tortured by the Germans, becomes a threat to the mission. He will have to be assassinated.
Lino Ventura
Philippe Gerbier
Paul Meurisse
Luc Jardie
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean François Jardie
Simone Signoret
Mathilde
Claude Mann
Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
Paul Crauchet
Felix Lepercq
Christian Barbier
Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
Serge Reggiani
The hairdresser
André Dewavrin
Colonel Passy
Alain Dekok
Legrain
Alain Mottet
Commander of the camp
Alain Libolt
Paul Dounat
Jean-Marie Robain
Baron de Ferte Talloire
Albert Michel
Gendarm
Denis Sadier
Gestapo's doctor
Georges Sellier
Colonel Jarret du Plessis
Marco Perrin
Octave Bonnafous
Hubert de Lapparent
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