Comrades (1970)
22 year-old- Yan is trying hard to find his way in life: a job he likes, an ideal. In Saint-Nazaire, his home town, he vegetates, just like his father, an unambitious worker. His fiancée, Juliette, has middle class values and dreams of nothing but a comfortable married life. Dissatisfied, he moves to Paris where he becomes an assembly line worker at the Billancourt Renault car factory. Sick of the working conditions he and his fellow workers have to endure there, he soon turns into a leftist activist...
Director: Marin Karmitz
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Jean-Paul Giquel as Yan |
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Juliet Berto as Juliette |
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Dominique Labourier as Jeanne |
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Jean-Pierre Melec as Jean-Pierre |
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André Julien as Yan's father |
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Gilette Barbier as Yan's mother |
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Christian Bouillette as |
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Albert Dray as |
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Michel Duplaix as |
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Jacques Favre-Bertin as |
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Gérard Zimmermann as |
| Directing | Marin Karmitz | Director |
| Writing | Lia Wajntal | Writer |
| Writing | Jean-Paul Giquel | Writer |
| Writing | Marin Karmitz | Writer |
| Camera | Pierre-William Glenn | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Jean Gonnet | Director of Photography |