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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lorber Films
  • 2 h 19 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lorber Films
  • 2 h 19 m

Summary The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants 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.

Directed By: Robert Guédiguian

Written By: Serge Le Péron, Gilles Taurand, Robert Guédiguian

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lorber Films
  • 2 h 19 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Lorber Films
  • 2 h 19 m

The Army of Crime

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants 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.

Directed By: Robert Guédiguian

Written By: Serge Le Péron, Gilles Taurand, Robert Guédiguian

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100
It shouldn't be missed. This is a fact-based story of the French resistance who had to fight not only the Germans but their own people. The title comes from the term in a propaganda poster that the Germans and occupied French government used to label the fighters as terrorists.
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Was it all for naught? Only weeks after the 23 partisans were arrested (and all but two promptly executed), Paris was liberated. Army of Crime is a passionate act of remembrance.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
80
Virginie Ledoyen stars as Missak's impossibly lovely, stalwart wife, and a troupe of supporting players give life to the men and women who died not for the miserable France of that moment, but for the vision of what it could be.
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75
Oct 22, 2010
This true story does a great service by honoring the memory of 22 brave men and women and by dramatizing the internal debates within the French population. But in staying true to life, it sacrifices some of the pacing and clarity of a conventional thriller.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
70
Though it drags here and there and is a bit flat in places, the film is solidly made and for the most part quite involving.
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60
Compelling performances and beautifully told heroics but the pacing is flawed in terms of a thrilling cinematic experience.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
40
There's no sense of the oppression France felt under Nazi rule. It's all just play-acting in period-specific attire. You can almost hear the AD calling lunch.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Agat Films & Cie, StudioCanal, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, CinéCinéma, France 3, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Agence Nationale pour la Cohésion Sociale et l'Egalité des Chances (ACSE), La Région Île-de-France, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Angoa-Agicoa, Soficapital, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date Aug 20, 2010
Duration 2 h 19 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Revenge. Liberation. Young Resistance Heroes.
Website http://www.larmeeducrime-lefilm.com/
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Awards

Valladolid International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Étoiles d'Or, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Pomegranate Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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