The Army of Crime (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

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Simon Abkarian, with handgun, as Missak Manouchian, and Robinson Stévenin as another Resistance fighter, in “Army of Crime,” by Robert Guédiguian.
Outsiders in French Society, Battling Occupiers and Collaborators
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: August 19, 2010

The closest person to a protagonist in the gripping historical mosaic “Army of Crime” is the eminent Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian). A militant Communist and hero of the French Resistance, executed by the Nazis in 1944, he is the noblest figure in a sprawling, semifictional movie that has enough characters to fill an entire neighborhood. More