France.
A documentary film about the communists of France and political events related to the activities of the Popular Front.
The teacher tells children in the class during a geography lesson about France and its riches: fields, mountain slopes, a tractor, wheat fields, a mower, harvesting, vineyards, blooming gardens, a forest.
A miner at the coalface, coal cars, a dam, a power station, factories, cast iron is poured, pouring into molds.
A machine tool is working, a car is assembled.
Ancient fortresses, medieval statues, Chartres Cathedral.
Notre Dame Cathedral.
Zaki, the Palace of Versailles.
Paris.
Place de la Concorde, the Triumphal Arch.
The streets of Paris, shop windows with jewelry.
The lesson is over.
Children on the street of a workers' settlement discuss the problem of why they are poor, and France is so rich France.
A board meeting of a company.
Against its background, the labor of workers.
Pouring milk into the river.
They burn bread, suggest adapting to circumstances.
Bourgeois guests.
Social conversation about cars and social security.
Card game.
A crowd of workers at the gates of the factory - bread and work.
Fascist young men with their ladies shoot a scarecrow with a machine gun, put a worker's cap on it
France, school, children, education, peasants, forest, plants, industry, automotive industry, Cathedral, lock, fortress, miners, mine, trade, household appliances, dam, power plant, workers, architecture, attractions, France, firm, workers, entertainment, industry, strike, fascists
France.
A group of French fascists practice shooting.
February 6, 1934. Fascists stage a clash in the streets.
Newspaper sellers sell newspapers.
Fascists stop trams and cars.
A car is on fire.
A demonstration of fascists on the Champs Elysees.
Hitler's youth is marching, German fascists are on parade.
Hitler's speech from the podium - instead of a speech, dogs bark.
Mussolini on the podium.
He walks along the line of fascists.
Mussolini on horseback.
Airplanes.
Bombs are exploding, tankettes and tanks are moving, infantry / chronicle of the First World War /.
Killed France.
The building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of France.
February 9, 1934. Photograph of the dispersal of the demonstration.
Text in the newspaper about the general strike.
Republic Square - a huge crowd, a demonstration Communists.
Funeral of six workers, victims of repression.
Many workers are walking.
They are carrying the slogan "People's Front 1789-1935".
Demonstrators are walking with raised fists, they are greeted.
Officials at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
November 11, 1935 demonstration of war veterans, cripples, invalids, riding in wheelchairs France.
USSR. Lenin and Bonch-Bruyevich in the Kremlin.
Stalin comes out of the door of the house.
Dimitrov and Stalin on the Mausoleum during the demonstration.
Marcel Cachin at his desk in the editorial office of the newspaper "L'Humanite" is preparing the next issue
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France.
Workers distribute "Huma" in working-class neighborhoods.
A fascist attacks a newspaperman, but gets a dressing-down from the workers.
Marcel Cachin sorts the newspaper's mail on March 27, 1937. A letter to "Humanité" from a metalworker: at the plant, the master timekeeper Brochard is unhappy with the work of the old worker Bertin, according to his report, the administration fired Bertin and reduced the rates.
The activist Tonen convened a Communist Committee and they developed a demand for the owners to bring Bertin back, remove the timekeeper, and not reduce the rates.
Strike in defense of Gustave Bertin
France, workers, industry, strike, personalities, press, communists
France.
Activists presented demands to the director of the plant.
The management had to give in.
The workers congratulate old Gustave.
The second letter to "L'Humanite" from the village.
An inventory of the property in the house of the peasant Lecoq and his family.
The communist activist Philippe, his nephew, and his friends block the sale of property and cattle at the auction of Uncle Lecoq and they manage to buy it for several dozen francs
France, industry, workers, public organizations, communists, peasants, personalities, press
France.
René, a young technician who graduated from the Electrotechnical Higher School, can’t find a job.
He leaves his girlfriend Ninette so as not to live on her money.
He gets hired to wash cars in a garage, but very soon the owner kicks him out.
René wanders the streets tired and hungry.
He joins the line for charity soup, but he doesn’t get anything.
He weakens and falls right on the street.
Workers passing by lift him up, bring him to the workers’ club, feed him in the buffet.
The workers’ choir sings on stage - a rehearsal is underway
France, poverty, unemployed, workers, personalities, charity, youth, education
France.
Workers, men and women, read poetry - they are preparing a performance in the style of "The Blue Blouse".
Paul Vaillant-Couturier's speech to the workers in a hall decorated with portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Dimitrov, Thälmann.
The following perform on the platform: Renaud Jean, Marthe Derumeau, Marcel Giton, Jacques Duclos, Maurice Thorez.
Columns of workers march to the sounds of the Internationale.
And again the fields of France are spread out, machines are working, sea waves are beating on the shore, trees are blooming
France, workers, concert, personalities, photo, State, figures, plants, sea