Movie Description:
ARMY OF CRIME tells an extraordinary true story of the French Resistance during WWII. InGerman-occupied Paris, poet andfactory worker MissakManouchian led a courageous group of immigrant fighters to sabotage the Nazi regime. Made upof young Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Italians,Spaniards and Armenians, this heroicallyragtag group committed nearly all acts of armed resistance in the capital betweenMarch and November 1943, beforea series of arrests broke theirranks. Director Robert Guediguian dramatizes their tale, bringing to life their acts of everyday sabotage from bombing Nazihangouts to assassinating brutal generals, all the whilebeing hounded bythe Vichy French police, who use double-agents and macabre tortures to bringthem in. In the middle of it all, Manouchian`s love for his strong-willed wife Melinee reminds them of the libertythey`refighting for. The noble andtragic story of these immigrants, who died for the republicanideals of France, is poetically brought to life inthis epic film.
