Comrades

1970 · 85 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 49 VOTES · DIR. Marin Karmitz

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Overview

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...

Dialogue Timeline — 919 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:08 COMRADES
00:08:40 Get out!
00:11:28 Hi, men, how's it going?
00:14:11 I send my laundry out.
00:18:25 What kinds of glasses do you use?
00:21:15 I'll write you first.
00:27:44 Every day, the same old story, work or unemployment.
00:29:40 Thou shalt sweat to earn bread for thy sons.
00:33:27 Shut the door.
00:35:33 I'll do anything tiII I get office work
00:37:41 You see!
00:47:43 I don't understand, I just don't.
00:49:59 They say insulting a foreman is inexcusable.
00:52:15 The way reformists differ from us
00:54:37 What action was taken to defend the mill?
00:56:47 for 13 days
00:59:02 one afternoon we saw
01:01:15 He reconquers his own birthright.
01:03:33 It makes him aware of many things.
01:05:26 If so, factories can easily be occupied
01:08:19 You get, say, 50 francs, but prices go up 50 francs.
01:10:52 Better to print a new circular
01:12:56 unite...
01:16:54 You fire the agitators.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed919
Dialogue density10.8 lines / min
First line00:00:08
Final line01:16:54

Production Record

DirectorMarin Karmitz
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes49