Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection)

Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret. A Frenchman escapes his Nazi captors and joins the French Resistance in this rediscovered masterwork. Includes high definition digital restoration, audio commentary from 2006 with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, interviews from 2007 with director of photography Pierre Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot, on-set footage and archival interview excerpts featuring Jean-Pierre Melville, cast members and real-life Resistance fighters, a short program about the director and his film and a rare short documentary shot on the front lines during the final days of the German occupation of France. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. 1969/color/145 min/NR/widescreen.