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La Vie est à nous (1936)
Director: Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Becker, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pierre Unik, Pierre Unik, Jacques Brunius, Jacques Brunius, André Vaillant-Couturier, André Vaillant-Couturier
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From Time Out Film Guide
Described in its original credits simply as 'a film made collectively by a group of technicians, artists and workers' with no names appearing, La Vie est à nous was the most overt work of the French Popular Front, made by Renoir with the assistance of Jacques Becker and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, and produced by the Communist Party. Basically a collection of documentary footage and vignettes satirising bourgeois society, offering up plenty of Communist-inspired optimism; but what marks it out from most propagandist tracts is the familiar Renoir theme of community ideals transcending social classes, expressed so eloquently in his previous feature, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange. A film of its time, conceived in the shadow of Hitler, it still communicates its message with an irrepressible joy and swagger.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Becker, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pierre Unik, Pierre Unik, Jacques Brunius, Jacques Brunius, André Vaillant-Couturier, André Vaillant-Couturier
Cast: Jean Dasté, Jacques Brunius, Simone Guisin, Teddy Michaux, Pierre Unik, Max Dalban, Madeleine Sologne, Charles Blavette, Jean Renoir, Roger Blin, Gaston Modot, Jacques Becker full cast
Duration: 66 mins
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