Shock Troops (film)

Shock Troops (French : Un homme de trop) is a 1967 French-Italian action drama film directed by Costa-Gavras. It was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1] Film producer Harry Saltzman has a "presented by" credit.^[2]

Set in central France, the film follows a group of French resistance fighters who mount attacks on occupying German forces during World War II. They break into a prison and release some prisoners facing imminent execution, but suspect there may be an informer amongst them. As their campaign continues, they have to decide his fate.

• Charles Vanel as Passevin
• Bruno Cremer as Cazal
• Jean-Claude Brialy as Jean
• Michel Piccoli as The Extra Man
• Gérard Blain as Thomas
• Claude Brasseur as Groubec
• Jacques Perrin as Kerk
• François Périer as Moujon
• Claude Brosset as Ouf
• Pierre Clémenti as Lucian
• Michel Creton as Solin
• Paolo Fratini as Philippe
• Julie Dassin as Girl
• Nino Segurini as Lecocq
• Marc Porel as Octave

Following the success of his first feature film, The Sleeping Car Murders , Costa-Gavras was approached by American producer Harry Saltzman, who gave him free rein over his next project. The filmmaker then expressed a desire to adapt André Malraux's La Condition humaine, but this idea alarmed Saltzman. The latter subsequently proposed Jean-Pierre Chabrol's novel about the French Resistance.^[3]

• Shock Troops at IMDb