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Representation of the Resistance in the French Films: The Battle of the Rails, Army of Shadows and The Army of Crime

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2018, (38), pp.239~286
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2018.02.38.239
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : January 3, 2018
  • Accepted : January 25, 2018
  • Published : February 28, 2018

Yong-Woo Lee 1

1동덕여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article attempts to analyze three films produced in the post-war France, which represented the Resistance in France during the German occupation. The Battle of the Rails(1946), Army of Shadows(1969) and The Army of Crime(2009) are examined here in terms of how they depict the Resistance under the Nazi rule and reflect their times. The Battle of the Rails describing the resistance of railway workers is regarded as the typical Resistance film produced just after the war and has close relationship with the myth of the resistancialism. Army of Shadows reflects the collapse of this myth and the end of a heroic age. The Army of Crime tells about the ‘Manouchian’s group’, an organization of immigrant Resistance fighters in Paris, and reminds the audience of the forgotten existence of foreigners in the French Resistance. As historical films showing the occupied France and the Resistance, Army of Shadows was better than The Battle of the Rails, and The Army of Crime received better reviews than two other films. However, those films’ public receptions did not coincide with the critical assessments of them when released.

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