Army of Shadows DVD Details
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Details
Chapters: 80
Regions: 1
Screen: WSE
Sound Formats: DD2/DD1
Languages: French
Number of sides: 2
DVD Studio: Criterion
Format: DVD
Features
New high-definition digital transfer of the 2004 restoration
supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme
Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack
Audio commentary by film historian Ginette Vincendeau
New interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot
Archival video excerpts
including on-set footage and interviews with Melville
cast members
writer Joseph Kessel
and real-life Resistance fighters
Jean-Pierre Melville et L'armée des ombres (2005)
a short program on the director and his film
Le journal de la Résistance (1944)
a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of German-occupied France
Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme
A booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin
historian Robert O. Paxton
and excerpts from Rui Nogueira's Melville on Melville
