The Army of Crime

Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and émigrès in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS General, eventually reach Berlin. Under the orders of the Gestapo, the French police and the collaborators hound Manouchian and his Résistants.