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...
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Cast
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Jean-Paul Giquel
Yan
No other roles listed
Juliet Berto
Juliette
Known for
Céline and Julie Go Boating
La Chinoise
Dominique Labourier
Jeanne
Known for
Céline and Julie Go Boating
City of Women
Jean-Pierre Melec
Jean-Pierre
No other roles listed
André Julien
Yan's father
Known for
Betty Blue
A Bad Son
Gilette Barbier
Yan's mother
Known for
Lourdes
The Nun
Christian Bouillette
Known for
Delicious
The Swarm
Albert Dray
Known for
So Long, Stooge
The Corsican File
Michel Duplaix
Known for
Fantomas
The Great Spy Chase
Jacques Favre-Bertin
Gérard Zimmermann
Also in
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Naked Hearts
Marin Karmitz Director · Jean-Paul Giquel Writer Lia Wajntal Writer
United States release September 13, 1970 · Produced in France · Languages French, Spanish
Production
Les Films 13
Production
mk2 Films
Production
France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Camarades
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · Spanish
Release dates
France · April 19, 1970
Premiere · Hyères Film Festival
United States · September 13, 1970
Premiere · New York Film Festival
France · November 5, 1970
Theatrical
Brazil
October 16, 2014 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
France
May 1, 1970 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
May 19, 2005 · Physical · DVD
Germany
May 1, 1971 · TV · West Germany
July 13, 1971 · TV · East Germany
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