Here director Robert Guédiguian aims to do for the French resistance what Days of Glory did for the army: remind the broad mass of French society that foreigners and non-natives were as committed to the defeat of the Nazis as the locals. His subject is the Affiche Rouge - the Red Poster - with which the Germans branded a resistance cell, run by Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, as criminal terrorists in 1944; hence the film's title, echoing the Nazis' own propaganda. Guédiguian makes no secret of the fervent communism of the group's members, even as he points up their varied ethnic composition: Polish, Russian, Italian, a large percentage Jewish. With its huddled meetings, walk-by assassinations, and cold Nazi-hate, Guédiguian manages to make this a worthy companion piece to Melville's resistance classic Army in the Shadows; the same remorseless dread stalks both.