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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...

Top Cast

  • Jean-Paul Giquel

    Jean-Paul Giquel

    Yan

  • Juliet Berto

    Juliet Berto

    Juliette

  • Dominique Labourier

    Dominique Labourier

    Jeanne

  • Jean-Pierre Melec

    Jean-Pierre Melec

    Jean-Pierre

  • André Julien

    André Julien

    Yan's father

  • Gilette Barbier

    Gilette Barbier

    Yan's mother

  • Christian Bouillette

    Christian Bouillette

  • Albert Dray

    Albert Dray

  • Michel Duplaix

    Michel Duplaix

Overview

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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