One of the all-time comedy classics. A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. Featuring light-hearted wit, tremendous visual innovation, and masterful manipulation of sound, "À nous la liberté" is both a potent indictment of mechanizes modern society and a comic delight. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.