| The Army of Crime | |
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 2009 poster advertising the French release | |
| Directed by | Robert Guédiguian |
| Written by | Robert Guédiguian Serge Le Péron Gilles Taurand |
| Produced by | Dominique Barneaud |
| Starring | Virginie Ledoyen Simon Abkarian |
| Cinematography | Pierre Milon |
| Edited by | Bernard Sasia |
| Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
| Distributed by | StudioCanal |
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Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $9.2 million[1] |
| Box office | $4.4 million[2] |
The Army of Crime (French: L'Armée du crime) is a 2009 French drama-war film directed by Robert Guédiguian and based on a story by Serge Le Péron, who is also one of three credited for the screenplay. It received a wide release in France on 16 September 2009 and opened in the United States in 2010.
The film deals with the development of the Manouchian Group, a 23-member resistance unit led by an Armenian exile. They were captured in 1944, tried by a German military court and executed. The title of the film was taken from a propaganda poster known as L'Affiche Rouge (red poster), in which the Nazis sought to present these French Resistance fighters as foreign criminals. The caption read "Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime".
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