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Title À nous la liberté / SECA-Filmsonor, a joint venture between Janus Films and the Home Vision Cinema ; directed by René Clair.

Publication Info. [New York] : Criterion, 2002.
1931.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult FOREIGN DVD  DVD FOREIGN-FRE-U    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN AD DVD NOUS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD NOUS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD FOREIGN NOUS    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Series Criterion collection ; 160
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 160.
Note Originally released as a French motion picture in 1931.
Credits Photography, Georges Périnal ; music, Georges Auric.
Cast Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Olivier, André Michand, Germaine Aussey, Jacques Shelly, Léon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa.
Summary A left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner. He oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he joins up with his old cellmate, and the pair take to the road as tramps.
Audience Not rated.
System Details DVD, 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital.
Note Special features: deleted scenes; Entr'acte (1924), the classic surrealist short by Clair and artist Francis Picabia; 1998 video interview with Madame Bronja Clair; film historian David Robinson on the plagiarism lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.
Language French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Local Note Some of the Simsbury Public Library items are are part of the Hayes Collection.
Subject Work -- Drama.
Factories -- Drama.
Working class -- Drama.
Automation -- Social aspects -- Drama.
Added Author Clair, René, 1898-1981.
Marchand, Henri, 1898-1959.
Cordy, Raymond, 1898-1956.
France, Rolla.
Ollivier, Paul, 1877-1948.
Shelly, Jacques.
S.E.C.A. (Firm)
Filmsonor (Firm)
Janus Films.
Home Vision (Firm)
Note Title on cassette label: René Clair's À nous la liberté
ISBN 0780023102
Standard No. 037429147726
Music No. NOU010 Criterion Collection
160 Criterion Collection
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