With the city Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom
workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman
Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other
Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquarters.
Directors: Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, André Zwoboda, Jean - Paul le Chanois, dit Dreyfus, Jacques Brunius, André Swoboda, Henri Cartier - Bresson, Pierre Unik, Maurice Lime Screenplay: Jean Renoir, Paul Vaillant - Couturier, Jean - Paul Dreyfus, Pierre Unik; (the content of one scene suggests that Ilya Ehrenburg, the Izvetsia correspondent in Paris throughout the 1930s, may have had an input) Photography: Louis Page, Jean - Serge Bourgoin, Jean Isnard, Alain Douarinou, Claude Renoir Jr., Nicholas Hayer (and, according to various sources, Marcel Carné and Henri Cartier - Bresson) Music: «Internationale», «Song of the Komsomols» by Shostakovitch, «Auprès de ma blonde», «La Cucaracha» sung by Chorale Populaire de Paris, directed by Suzanna Conte Sound: Robert Teisseire Editor: Marguerite Renoir Cast: Jean Dasté (teacher), Jacques Brunius (President of the Administrative
Council), Pierre Unik (Marcel Cachin» s secretary), Julien Bertheau (René, a young
worker), Nadia Sibirskaia (Ninette), Emile Drain (Gustave), Gaston Modot (Philippe),
Charles Blavette (Tonin), Max Dalban (Foreman), Madeleine Solange (factory
worker), Jacques Becker (unemployed
worker), Jean Renoir, Sylvain Itkine, Jean - Paul Dreyfus, Léon Larive, Roger Blin, Vladimir Sokoloff, and (as themselves) Marcel Cachin, André Marty, Maurice Thorez, Jacques Duclos, Paul Vaillant - Couturier.