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Freedom for us = A nous la liberté [videorecording] / Films Sonores Tobis ; producer, Harold Auten ; written and directed by René Clair.

Contributor Marchand, Henri, 1898-1959.

Imprint:United States : Criterion Collection, c2002, c1931.

Description1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 1931.

Note:"The Classic Collection, a joint venture between Janus Films and the Home Vision Cinema".....container

Note:Special features: deleted scenes, the 1924 short Entr'act; 1998 interview with Bronja Clair; film historian David Robinson on the plagiarism lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

Note:A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisioners, one of whom an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other , a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.

Note : PerformerHenri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Olliver, André Michand, Germaine Aussey, Jaques Shelly, Léon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa.

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Contributor
Marchand, Henri, 1898-1959.
Cordy, Raymond, 1898-1956.
France, Rolla.
Olliver, Paul, 1877-1948.
Clair, Ren'e, 1898-1981.
Auten, Harold.
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983.
Perinal, Georges, 1897-1965.
Meerson, Lazare, 1900-1938.
Hubert, Rene, 1895-1976.
Clair, Bronja.
Robinson, David.
Films sonores Tobia.
Home Vision (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Janus Films.
Title:
A nous la liberté [videorecording]
Series Added Entry
Classic collection
Criterion collection
Subject:
Ex-convicts -- Drama.
Factories -- Employees -- Drama.
Tramps -- Drama.
Work -- Drama.
Working class -- Drama.
Automation -- Social aspects -- Drama.
France -- Drama.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Black and white films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Fiction films.
Other title
Entr'acte.