Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

• SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE - DISC SET FEATURES
• New high-definition digital transfer of the recent full restoration, supervised by director of photography Pierre Lhomme
• Optional Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 soundtrack
• Audio commentary by Jean - Pierre Melville historian Ginette Vincendeau
• New interviews with Lhomme and editor Francoise Bonnot
• Archival excerpts from French television programs, including on - set footage from the film's production and interviews with Melville; actors Jean - Pierre Cassel, Paul Crauchet, Paul Meurisse, and Simone Signoret; writer Joseph Kessel; and real - life Resistance fighters Andre Dewavrin (a.k.a. Colonel Passy) and Lucie Aubrac, among others
• Jean - Pierre Melville et "L'Armee des ombres" (2006), a short documentary including interviews with Bonnot, Lhomme, Cassel, composer Eric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
• Le journal de la Resistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines of the final days of the French Resistance
• Film restoration demonstration by Lhomme
• Theatrical trailers
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring critic Amy Taubin, historian Robert Paxton, and excerpts from Rui Nogueira's Melville on Melville
• More!