A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
Life Is Ours (1937)
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Rating:
Genre:Drama, History
Directed By:Pierre Unik, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Brunius, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Maurice Lime, André Zwobada
Written By:Jacques Becker, Jean Renoir, Pierre Unik, Jacques Brunius
In Theaters:12/4/1937
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Runtime:66 minutes
Studio:Collective Films, Parti Communiste Français
Cast
Pierre Unik, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Brunius, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Maurice Lime, André Zwobada
Director
Jean Dasté
L'instituteur / Teacher
Nadia Sibirskaïa
Ninette - l'amie de René
Gaston Modot
Philippe - le neveu des Lecocq
Madeleine Sologne
Une ouvrière de l'usine
Vladimir Sokoloff
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Gabrielle Fontan
Madame Lecocq
Henri Pons
Monsieur Lecocq
Charles Blavette
Tonin (as Blavette)
Jacques Brunius
Le président du conseil d'administration
Jean Renoir
Le patron du bistrot
Simone Guisin
Une dame au Casino
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