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A nous la liberté / Janus films ; Films Ariane ; produced by Harold Auten ; written and directed by René Clair.
LIBRA DVD 005 162 disc + pamphlet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
- Criterion collection ; 160.
- Classic collection
- Criterion collection ; 160
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Chaplin, Charlie.
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
- Factories--Drama.
- Factories.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Plagiarism.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet ([6] pages ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Full screen ; RSDL dual-layer édition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2002]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby Digital
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, 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.
- Participant:
- Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Georges Périnal ; editor, René le Hénaff ; music, Georges Auric.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931.
- Special features: deleted scenes; includes Clair's famous surrealist short film Entr'acte; 1998 interview with Bronja Clair; film historian David Robinson on the plagiarism lawsuit against Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.
- Contains:
- Entr'acte.
- ISBN:
- 0780023102
- OCLC:
- 50491755
- Publisher Number:
- 037429147726
- NOU010 Criterion Collection
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