La Grande Espérance (1937)

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Scenes and images from the French Communist Party's (PCF) 1937 Congress in Arles. La Grande Espérance highlights some of the PCF's new concerns under the Popular Front: a warning against international fascism, a desire for organic unity, and the defense of national heritage and regional cultures. It also reveals the first signs of a cult of personality surrounding Maurice Thorez. La Grande Espérance was screened (and possibly re-edited) after the Liberation. A commentary was then added to the credits emphasizing the continuity of the Communist Party’s political line and the sacrifice of its activists during the war. Today, only this post-1945 version exists.

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  Maurice Thorez

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  Marcel Cachin

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  Jacques Duclos

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• Danièle Casanova

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• Benoît Frachon

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• Georges Politzer

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• Marie Politzer

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• Joseph Ramier

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• Martha Desrumeaux

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• Pierre Semard

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• Julien Racamond

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• Jean-Richard Bloch

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Jacques Becker