À Nous la Liberté

  • Henri Marchand: Émile
  • Raymond Cordy: Louis
  • Rolla France: Jeanne
  • Paul Ollivier: uncle
  • Jacques Shelly: Paul
  • André Michaud: contre Le maitre
  • Germaine Aussey: Maud

Long live freedom ( Original title: À Nous la Liberté ) is a French satire film from 1931 directed by René Clair.. At the Academy Awards in 1932, the film was nominated for "Best Production Design ". The film is attributed to the poetic realism.

Action

Émile and Louis, two crooks meet each other in a prison and become friends. Louis manages to escape from the prison and can not only successfully evade a recent arrest, he still makes career as a factory owner. Years later, Émile and Louis meet again when the now redundant Émile looking for work at Louis make representations. The resumed friendship with Émile Louis brings in increasingly precarious situations. When the factory owner is recognized by former inmates and then blackmailed, Louis must make a decision. He meets her in favor of freedom and draws from now with Émile as a vagrant on the streets. The factory leaves Louis his workers.

Background

Long live freedom was premiered on 18 December 1931 in France. However, in Germany the film was released in theaters until October 31, 1958. On August 15, 1962, he was first broadcast on German television.

Reviews

The film magazine Cinema writes: " René Clair's nimbly staged satire attacked social evils and progressive mechanization ". The lexicon of the International film judged Long live freedom as one of the " important French films of the 30s ". The magazine Der Spiegel wrote in 1959 in a review: " Clair has invented a wealth of suggestive scenes and dance choreographies exact picture for this grotesque. "

Awards

The art director Lazare Meerson was nominated in 1932 for his styled scene image of the film for an Oscar.

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