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.
This led some economists of the time to conclude that «
input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving
teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving
teachers direct incentives to raise student performance: