Pièce de Résistance Pierre Lhomme, AFC recalls his work on Army of Shadows, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 masterpiece about the French Resistance that was released in the States for the first time last year. by Benjamin B 62 July 2007 F rance, 1943. A German soldier peers into a holding cell. Seven French prisoners in leg irons are spread out across the large space. One of them, Gerbier (Lino Ventura), fishes out a pack of cigarettes and throws it to his neighbor. Each man in turn takes out a cigarette, and throws the pack, then a lighter, to the next