WED FEB 21, 2024 7:00 PM

ARMY OF SHADOWS

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include the $2.00 online booking fee.

Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with Daniel Brunstetter, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science, University of California, Irvine, and Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, Ph.D., French Instructor, Pasadena City College, and specialist in Holocaust remembrance and Monique Saigal-Escudero, born under Nazi occupied France and author of French Heroines, 1940-1945: Courage, Strength and Ingenuity.

Co-presented by Villa Albertine, Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine’s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, and Armenian Film Society

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  • RELEASED IN: 1969
  • 145 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Melville

ABOUT THE FILM:

In French with English subtitles.

Philippe (Lino Ventura), aided by Resistance compatriots including maitresse of disguise Mathilde (Simone Signoret), goes underground in the face of the German Occupation – but the price of heroism can be truly horrific.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Rialto Pictures

COUNTRY: France/Italy

On February 21, French-Armenian poet, Armenian genocide survivor, and leader of the French Resistance Missak Manouchian will be inducted into France’s Panthéon, the eternal resting place of the country’s greats. He will be interred alongside his wife, Mélinée, a writer and fellow résistante. This screening pays tribute to the Manouchians and the Resistance movement.