"Sin Unit" movie

Year: 2009

Genre: War/Drama

Region: France

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Language: French

Release Date: September 23, 2009, Wednesday

English Title: The Army of Crime

Other Names: Army of Crime / L'armée du crime

Screenwriter: Serge Le Péron

Director: Robert Guédiguian

Cast: Virginie Ledoyen / Simon Abkarian

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IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258120/ (6.6/10 from 1,498 users)

Synopsis:

"When the bullets blossomed, there were twenty-three of them, twenty-three who had already given their hearts before, twenty-three foreigners as our brothers..." In 1955, the French poet Louis Aragon wrote these lines in honor of a group of immigrants who gave their lives for France. Rewind to 1943 during the German occupation of Paris, under the leadership of Armenian poet Missak Manouchian, a group of young Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Spaniards, Italians, and Armenians formed an underground resistance organization. Determined to fight for the liberation of the France they loved, they risked their lives and carried out multiple assassinations targeting Nazis and their collaborators. Soon, they became a thorn in the side of the Nazis, and the police managed to track, expose, and suppress their actions through surveillance, informants, threats, and brutal torture. On February 21, 1944, including Manouchian, 22 men and one woman were sentenced to death. These twenty-three individuals were labeled by the Nazis as the "Army of Crime," but later their image spread across the country on red propaganda leaflets. These foreign immigrants, who sacrificed themselves for France's freedom, ultimately became legendary heroes of the nation.