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The Garage (1920)
, 25minutesDirected by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Disaster films
Actors Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Harry McCoy, Monty Banks, Alice Lake
Two men who work as both automobile mechanics and firemen operate a garage in a fire station. A car has been left for them to clean, but they destroy it instead. In the second half of the film, Roscoe and Keaton have been called to a fire, but it turns out to be a false alarm. When they return, they find their own fire station on fire.
La Terre (1921)
, 1h38Directed by André Antoine
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Armand Bour, Germaine Rouer, René Alexandre, Jean Hervé, Émile Mylo, Berthe Bovy
Tourné dans la plaine de la Beauce, près de Chartres en France, le film La Terre retrace fidèlement l’histoire du roman d’Émile Zola montrant le drame paysan de l’époque, froid, endurci, faisant ressortir, la misère matérielle, l'avarice, et l'égocentrisme des terriens.
The Last Laugh (1924)
, 1h26Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Edgar George Ulmer
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Hans Unterkircher, Olaf Storm, Max Hiller, Georg John
Jannings' character, the doorman for a famous hotel, is demoted to washroom (restroom) attendant, as he is considered too old and infirm to be the image of the hotel. He tries to conceal his demotion from his friends and family, but to his shame, he is discovered. His friends, thinking he has lied to them all along about his prestigious job, taunt him mercilessly while his family rejects him out of shame. The man, shocked and in incredible grief, returns to the hotel to sleep in the washroom where he works. The only person to be kind towards him is the night watchman, who covers him with his coat as he falls asleep.
Strike (1925)
, 1h18Directed by Sergueï Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Grigori Alexandrov, Anatoly Kuznetsov
На заводе всё спокойно / At the factory all is quiet Using typography, the word "но" (but) is added to the title of the chapter which then animates and dissolves into an image of machinery in motion.
The General Line (1929)
, 2h11Directed by Sergueï Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Dans un village traditionnel, Marfa Lapkina est une pauvre paysanne qui ne possède même pas un cheval. Les koulaks, les paysans riches, refusent d'aider les plus pauvres. Marfa considère le communisme comme son seul espoir. Avec l'appui de jeunes communistes et de responsables du parti, elle lance l'idée d'une coopérative, un kolkhoze. Grâce au kolkhoze, les paysans apprennent le travail en commun et découvrent la mécanisation.
Earth (1930)
, 1h15Directed by Alexandre Dovjenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Yuliya Solntseva
The film begins with the final moments of grandfather Semyon (Simon) Opanas beneath a pear tree. Next local kulaks, including Arkhyp Bilokin, contemplate the process of collectivization and declare their resistance to it, while elsewhere Semyon's grandson Vasyl (Basil) and his komsomol friends also meet to discuss collectivization, although his father is skeptical.
À Nous la Liberté (1931)
, 1h44Directed by René Clair
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Prison films, Films about the labor movement, Musical films, Évasion
Actors Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Paul Ollivier, Léon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa
The film opens with an image of a wooden toy horse. Gradually we observe that this is an assembly line in a prison, staffed by prisoners. They sing (La liberté, c'est pour les heureux = "Freedom is for the happy") as they work. Close-ups of two prisoners (Louis and Émile, the film's main protagonists) indicate they've taken a work tool. The prisoner next to Louis occasionally looks on, looking somewhat bored. After dinner everyone goes back to their cell. After feigning sleep during a guard's nightly rounds, Louis and Émile sing the title song as they resume a project of sawing off the prison window. Émile cuts himself, and Louis kindly mends the wound with a handkerchief. The window breaks free and they attempt to escape. Louis is able to get over the retaining wall, but Émile is not successful. Louis escapes, accidentally knocks someone off a bicycle, and rides off on the bicycle. Meanwhile we hear a chorus suggesting he's about to be captured (Ce sera bientôt fini = "It'll soon be over"). Louis heads into a village emblazoned with the words "Finishing Line" - the cyclist he knocked over was in a bicycle race, and Louis has won first prize.
Typist (1931)
, 1h17Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, Musical films
Actors Marie Glory, Jean Murat, Armand Bernard, Jean Boyer, Albert Broquin
Simone (Marie Glory), jeune dactylo travaillant dans une banque, engage un soir la conversation avec un jeune homme élégant qu'elle croit être un collègue, mais qui est en réalité son patron, Paul Derval (Jean Murat). Celui-ci ne la détrompe pas et s'amuse lorsqu'elle lui dit qu’elle espère pouvoir se marier avec un meilleur parti qu'un simple employé.
Comradeship (1931)
, 1h33Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Origin German
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Ernst Busch, Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Héléna Manson, Gustav Püttjer, Elisabeth Wendt
Two boys, one French and the other German, are playing marbles near the border between the two countries. When the game is over, both boys claim to have won, and complain that the other is trying to steal their marbles. Their fathers, border guards, come and separate the boys.
Land Without Bread (1933)
, 27minutesDirected by Luis Buñuel
Origin Espagne
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, Documentaire sur le monde paysan, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Actors Abel Jacquin, Francisco Rabal
Seul film documentaire de Luis Buñuel, tourné en avril et mai 1932 dans la région des Hurdes (Estrémadure), à partir de la thèse ethnographique de Maurice Legendre, directeur de l'Institut français de Madrid, Las Jurdes : étude de géographie humaine (1927), Terre sans pain ne fut sonorisé qu’en 1937, puis à nouveau en 1965 lorsque Buñuel décida, avec son producteur Pierre Braunberger, de diffuser une version non censurée du film. Remarquable par son sujet peu traité à l’époque (la misère en milieu rural), par son montage (fait par Buñuel « sur une table de cuisine, à Madrid »), par l'usage du gros plan et de la piste sonore, ainsi que par la place assignée au spectateur par le film, le film continue à surprendre aujourd’hui encore.
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
, 1h30Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Lucien Littlefield, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young
In 1908 the Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young) gambles away his eminently correct English manservant, Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton). Ruggles' new masters, crude nouveau riche American millionaires Egbert and Effie Floud (Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland), bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington, a remote Western boomtown. When Ruggles is mistaken for a wealthy retired Englishman colonel, he becomes a celebrity in the small town. As Ruggles attempts to adjust to his rough new community, he learns to live life on his own terms, achieving a fulfilling independence as a result.
Black Fury (1935)
, 1h34Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, John Qualen, J. Carrol Naish
Set in Pennsylvania coal country, the film tells the story of Joe Radek, a miner who has come from immigrants. Upset after an argument with his girlfriend, he drinks and attends a union meeting, where he acts as a catalyst to splitting the radical and conservative factions; they decide to go out on strike. During violence by the Coal and Iron Police, his best friend is killed.
Blue Blazes (1936)
, 17minutesDirected by Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Buster Keaton, Arthur L. Jarrett
Elmer (Buster Keaton) becomes a fireman, but not a particularly good one. He has a chance to prove himself, however, when three women are trapped in a burning building.
They Were Five (1936)
, 1h41Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about the labor movement
Actors Jean Gabin, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos, Viviane Romance, Charles Dorat, Raphaël Médina
Five unemployed Parisian workers, Jeannot (Jean Gabin), Charlot (Charles Vanel), Raymond, called Tintin (Raymond Aimos), Jacques (Charles Dorat), and Mario (Raphaël Médina), a foreigner threatened with expulsion, win the main prize in the National Lottery. One of them, Jeannot, has the idea of putting the money together so the group can buy an old suburban wash house in ruins that they would transform, as equal co-owners, into a guinguette—a dancing and refreshment café in the country. They get down to realizing the project with confidence. But the solidarity of the group proves fragile. Soon enough the group is reduced to just Charles and Jean—who are in love with the same woman, Gina (Viviane Romance). The ending, judged too pessimistic, was re-made.
, 30minutesDirected by Sergueï Eisenstein
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Erast Garine, Boris Zakhava, Stanislav Rostotski
Because Bezhin Meadow was repeatedly edited, re-shot, and changed to satisfy the Soviet government authorities, several versions of the film were created.