A nous la liberté (English: Give us freedom)

Japanese: 自由を我等に - じゆうをわれらに（英語表記）A nous la liberté

A French film made in 1931. It was director Rene Clair's third talkie after Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) and Le Million (1931), and was produced by Tobis. An escaped convict who had taken refuge in a phonograph factory and rises to the top gives up his position, and sets off on a journey to nowhere in search of "freedom" with a fellow inmate who has served his sentence and become a factory worker. The film satirizes capitalist society and machine civilization, depicting the events that led to the escapee giving up his position and setting off on a journey to nowhere in search of "freedom" with a fellow inmate who has served his sentence and become a factory worker, contrasting the modern factory where machines control humans with the inhuman labor of a prison.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1931年製作のフランス映画。《巴里の屋根の下》(1930)，《ル･ミリオン》(1931)に続くルネ･クレール監督のトーキー第3作で，トビス社の作品。逃げ込んだ蓄音機工場の社長に出世した脱獄囚が社長の地位を捨て，刑期を終えて工員になっていた刑務所仲間と2人で〈自由〉をもとめてあてのない旅にでるいきさつを，機械が人間を支配する近代的な工場を刑務所の非人間的な労働と対比して描きながら資本主義社会と機械文明を風刺する。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

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