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The Army of Crime

ROBERT GUEDIGUIAN
France, 2009, 139 minutes, Color, film's website

It's Paris, 1941. Exiled Armenian poet Manouchian, who survived his own people's genocide, finds common cause with the Jews being rounded up and reluctantly takes control of a ragtag group of young, foreign-born resistance fighters. At the risk of their lives, the group's dangerous clandestine activities lead ordinary people to heroic accomplishments while life proceeds as normal for the rest of the populace. At first, the Germans rely on the French police to quell the insurgents, but after the murder of a high-ranking general they ramp up the pressure. Spectacularly reproducing the era, and enhanced by Alexandre Desplat's moving score and a huge cast of fine performers, the film transforms a tense, authentic historical saga into a living, breathing testament to the reality that questions of moral commitment never really go away. —Melbourne Alliance French Film Festival

In French, German, and Armenian with English subtitles

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