À nous la liberté (1931)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 95m
Director: René Clair
Cast: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France
Synopsis:
A former convict becomes a factory owner whose workers are reduced to functioning like automata. When it looks as if his past might catch up with him, he takes a radical decision and decamps with his cellmate for the open road.
Review:
Clair's industrialization/Depression era comedy anticipates the optimism of the Front Populaire and was alleged to have served as inspiration for Chaplin's Modern Times.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 95m
Director: René Clair
Cast: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France
Synopsis:
A former convict becomes a factory owner whose workers are reduced to functioning like automata. When it looks as if his past might catch up with him, he takes a radical decision and decamps with his cellmate for the open road.
Review:
Clair's industrialization/Depression era comedy anticipates the optimism of the Front Populaire and was alleged to have served as inspiration for Chaplin's Modern Times.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 95m
Director: René Clair
Cast: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France
Synopsis:
A former convict becomes a factory owner whose workers are reduced to functioning like automata. When it looks as if his past might catch up with him, he takes a radical decision and decamps with his cellmate for the open road.
Review:
Clair's industrialization/Depression era comedy anticipates the optimism of the Front Populaire and was alleged to have served as inspiration for Chaplin's Modern Times.