Army of Shadows (2006)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Rating: NONE

Release Date: Apr 28, 2006

Running Time: 143 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue French, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: France

Country Of Origin: Italy

starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani, Alain Libolt, Paul Crauchet, Alain Mottet

director: Jean-Pierre Melville

During a tragic period in humanity, Philippe Gerbier is an ordinary man who finds himself in the center of extraordinary events, alongside compatriots Mathilde, Luc Jardie, Francois, Le Masque and Felix, who are members of the Resistance. Among others notables like 'Colonel Passy'--one of DeGaulle's chief architects of the Movement--the story follows these early French Resistance fighters, showing how they help the British during World War II.

PETER TRAVERS - January 17, 2007

How the hell can the New York Film Critics Circle choose Army of Shadows as the year's best foreign-language film? It's nearly forty years old, a classic thriller of the French Resistance, directed and adapted from Joseph Kessel's 1943 novel by Jean-Pierre Melville, who served in the Resistance himself. Since the film never received a U.S. release till now, it won the prize on a technicality. But you won't protest when you see the film that Rialto Pictures is opening across the country in a…