Army of Crime (2009) on Netflix
In occupied Paris, Missak Manouchian, an Armenian exile, joins an ill-assorted group of immigrant resistance fighters whose attacks are disorganized. He is ready to die but reluctant to kill.
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Plot summary
Paris under German occupation: resistance movements form, some of them among migrants. An ill-assorted group of fighters carries out disorganized attacks. Missak Manouchian, an Armenian exile and poet, is willing to help the cause but refuses to kill, holding that he is ready to die rather than take a life. Circumstances push him past that refusal, and under his leadership the group plans its operations more carefully and becomes the Manouchian Group, twenty-two men and one woman. His unit belongs to a network of about a hundred resistance fighters in Paris that mounted most of the city's armed resistance in 1943.
Cast
- Paula Kleinas Madame Rayman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Army of Crime (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Vichy government put up thousands of the red-background posters known as L'Affiche rouge, showing photos of ten of the men and details of their backgrounds to portray the migrant Resistance fighters as terrorists; Parisians wrote "Morts pour La France" (Died for France) across them and left flowers.
SPOILER
The Manouchian Group at the centre of the film was a 23-member French Resistance unit led by an Armenian exile; its members were captured in 1944, tried by a German military court and executed.- The film's title came from L'Affiche Rouge (red poster), a Nazi propaganda poster that sought to present the French Resistance fighters as foreign criminals; its caption read "Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime".
