Life Belongs to Us (French: La vie est à nous) is a 1936 documentary propaganda film commissioned and produced by the Communist Party of France. Parts of the film were taken from newsreels, and are mixed with new sketches about working people, peasants and intellectuals.

Life Belongs to Us
Directed byJacques Becker
Jacques B. Brunius
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Maurice Lime
Jean Renoir
Pierre Unik
André Zwoboda
Written byJacques Becker
Jacques B. Brunius
Jean Renoir
Pierre Unik
StarringBrunius
Pierre Unik
Max d'Alban
Fabien Loris
Teddy Michaux
Sylvain Itkine
Roger Blin
Guy Favières
Edited byJacques B. Brunius
Marguerite Renoir
Music byHanns Eisler
Eugène Pottier
Dmitri Shostakovich
Release date
  • 1936 (1936)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
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