Special Features
High-definition digital restoration, supervised by Director of Photography Pierre Lhomme, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Alternate 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio Soundtrack; Audio Commentary from 2006 featuring film scholar Ginette Vincendeau; Interviews from 2007 with Lhomme and Editor Françoise Bonnor; On-set footage and excerpts from archival interviews with Director Jean-Pierre Melville, cast members, author Joseph Kessel, and real-life Resistance fighters; Jean-Pierre Melville et "L'armée des ombres" (2005), a short program on the Director and his film; Le journal de la Résistance (1944), a rare short documentary shot on the front lines during the final days of the German occupation of France; Restoration demonstration by Lhomme; Trailers; Plus: Essays by critic Amy Taubin and historian Robert O. Paxton, as well as excerpts from Rui Nogueira's Melville on Melville