Life Belongs to Us (1936)
- Original title
- La vie est à nous
- Directed by
- André Zwobada, Jacques Brunius, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jacques Becker
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 04m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This French documentary mixes newsreel footage with staged scenes to criticize the wealthy families who controlled France in the 1930s. It shows the lives of workers, farmers, and intellectuals and argues for communist ideas.
polemicaleducationalearnestdatedfragmentarypropagandisticslow-paced
What happens
Life Belongs to Us (French: La vie est à nous) is a 1936 documentary propaganda film commissioned and produced by the Communist Party of France with the participation, among others, of Jean Renoir. Parts of the film were taken from newsreels, and are mixed with new sketches about working people, peasants, and intellectuals. It analyzes the power of the "200 families" who ran France at the time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
- Radio (1936)
- Sous la terreur (1936)
- The Lower Depths (1936)
- The Forsaken (1937 film) (1936)
- The Two Girls (1936)
- Popular Science J-6-2 (1936)
- Chantons sous l'Occupation (1976)
- Hitler's Games, Berlin 1936 (2016)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…