La Vie Est À Nous - Life Belongs To Us (French Communist Party Film)
Life Belongs to Us is a 1936 propaganda film produced by the Communist Party of France and directed by various members of the Communist Party. The film was created in response to the 7th Congress of the Comintern to promote the anti-fascist united front tactics adopted at the World Congress and to appeal to the workers of France to support the Communist Party against fascism and war depicting film reels and various pro-communist skits.
In 1935 Georgi Dimitrov's United Front thesis was adopted by the 7th World Congress of the Communist International amidst the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy. In nearly every liberal country in the developed world, the communists sought to draw social-democratic and liberal-aligned workers into a united front under the Communist Party to fight the spread of fascism. This ranged from fighting against O'Duffy's blueshirts under Fine Gael in Ireland to Huey Long's fascist campaign in America. But in few places was the fight as hard-fought as in France, bordered by both fascist Italy and Germany and later Spain. The French communists waged a fierce and exemplary battle in the streets and media against fascism, saving the workers of France from the shared fate of the workers of Germany and Italy.
