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Imbued with the spirit of the left-wing political movement, Front Populaire, which would have a major political victory that year, the film chronicles the story of M. Lange (René Lefèvre), a mild-mannered clerk at a publishing company who dreams of writing Western stories. He gets his chance when the salacious head of the company disappears and the abandoned workers decide to form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim--whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. The film also sweetly depicts Lange's romance with his neighbor, Valentine (Florelle). In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... Popular Fronts comprise broad coalitions of political and other groups, often made up of oppositioners or left wingers, and often united against particularly stringent circumstances. ...

An idyllic picture of a socialist France, the film is part social commentary and part romance. The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...

See also

• Cinema of France
• List of French language films