Life is ours (1936)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Life is ours |
| Original title | La vie est à nous |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 62 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Renoir |
| script | Jean Renoir, Jean-Paul Dreyfus (Jean-Paul Le Chanois), Jacques Becker , André Zwobada , Pierre Unik , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Paul Vaillant-Couturier , Jacques Brunius , Marc Maurette , Maurice Lime . |
| production | Communist Party of France |
| music | Die Internationale , Lied der Komsomol by Dmitri Shostakovich and other workers' songs |
| camera | Léo Mirkine |
| cut | Marguerite Renoir |
Life is ours is a semi-documentary film made by Jean Renoir in 1936 on the initiative of the French Communist Party , which was designed as an advertising campaign for the left Popular Front government .
action
Life Belongs to Us presents in semi-documentary form a mixture of filmed documentary parts and game scenes of fictional events that take place in the everyday reality of the working class, the peasantry and the bourgeoisie: A company board organizes massive layoffs, in a factory a strike prevents the layoff of older workers. Peasants supported by militant citizens prevent the confiscation of a poor peasant's property, and a young unemployed person who has nothing to eat is welcomed and nourished by young communists.
Production notes
Life is ours was first presented on April 7, 1936, but was not made accessible to a broad French public until 33 years later, on November 12, 1969. The German premiere took place on March 2, 1973 in the third program of the Hessischer Rundfunk as the original with subtitles.
In numerous scenes, in addition to lay people, well-known actors and other filmmakers appear who otherwise found work in regular feature films, including Madeleine Sologne , Jean Dasté , Gaston Modot , Roger Blin and Wladimir Sokoloff, as well as the young communist and later film director Jean-Paul Le Chanois and his colleague Jacques Becker .
criticism
In the Lexicon of International Films it says: “The documentary film was made in 1936 at the beginning of the Popular Front era on behalf of the Communist Party, which used it to campaign for the National Assembly elections and only used it in political meetings. (...) It is a propaganda film that tries to mobilize the workers against fascism and glorifies the Communist Party as the mother of the masses. It ends with an endless march in which - stereotypically occupied - workers and employees, men and women, intellectuals and farmers pull along and loudly sing the "Internationale". "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life is ours. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Life belongs to us in the Internet Movie Database (English)