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Terrorists in Retirement (1985)
Directed by Mosco Boucault
Documentary · 1h 24m
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Cast
Simone Signoret
Gérard Desarthe
Crew
- Director
- Mosco Boucault
- Writer
- Mosco Boucault
- Director of Photography
- Guy Chanel, Guy-Auguste Boléat, Carlo Varini, Jean Orjollet, François Catonné, Eduardo Serra, Philippe Rousselot
- Original Music Composer
- Jean Schwarz, Benoît Charvet
- Editor
- Christiane Lehérissey, Chantal Rémy
Details
- Original title
- Des terroristes à la retraite
- Release date
- 1985-07-26
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- La Cécilia, Copra Films, Antenne 2