The Army of Crime (French: L'Armée du crime) is a 2009 French
drama-war film directed by Robert Guédiguian and based on a story by
Serge Le Péron, who is also one of three credited for the screenplay.
It received a wide release in France on 16 September 2009 and opened
in the United States in 2010.The film deals with the development of
the Manouchian Group, a 23-member resistance unit led by an Armenian
exile. They were captured in 1944, tried by a German military court,
and executed. The title of the film was taken from a propaganda poster
known as L'Affiche Rouge (red poster), in which the Nazis sought to
present these French Resistance fighters as foreign criminals. The
caption read "Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime".In Paris
during the German occupation, resistance movements develop, including
some by immigrants. An ill-assorted group of resistance fighters
commits disorganized attacks. Missak Manouchian, an Armenian exile, is
ready to help but is reluctant to kill; for him, being ready to die
but not to kill is an ethical matter. However, circumstances lead him
to drop his reluctance. Under his leadership, the 23-member group
better strategizes and plans its actions, and develops as what was
known as the Manouchian Group. It was part of a network of 100
resistance fighters in Paris that carried out most of the acts of
armed resistance in 1943. The film traces the history of this group,
from its shaping to the arrest, trial by a German military court, and
execution of its members in 1944. The Army of Crime Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter