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THE RED POSTER

Today's film is the French Resistance film L'armée du crime / The Army of Crime (2009)

A NYTimes Critics' Pick.

This film is inspired by "the red poster" which was widely circulated by the Nazis in France to characterize the Resistance as a band of criminal communist jew immigrants bent on destroying France from within. They called them "The Army of Crime".

A sort of all in one group of scapegoats to be cruelly used for Nazi propaganda.

This film depicts the organization of this group as part of the Resistance, a battle unit, and shows their activities until they were betrayed by informers not so much in the group as around the group. No one confessed despite brutal torture and they were convicted in a show trial and executed as a group.

The Nazis and collaborator French needed a show trial to combat the idea that the French people were rebelling against the Nazi occupiers.

Of course, the poster and press coverage did the opposite and made the members of this group into heroes.

The film is, in addition to a very exciting story, a beautiful rendition of the period with every scene full of people, places and things that represent the times.

Costumes, vehicles, locations. Great.

I saw this before and liked it very much. A 5 out of Netflix5. Once a 5 always a 5.

Labels: films