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Show all (5)Set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary" period of the Popular Front (which introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week). Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a show there.
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In the faux world of "Paris 36," the blue-collar residents of a Paris suburb may be out of work. They may be caught in a power play amid communists, socialists, and fascists. But our plucky common men and women sing, they dance. They love their neighborhood music hall, the Chansonia, and will do anything to ensure its vaudeville tradition won't end.
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