Jacques Feyder's Les Nouveaux Messieurs is a political satire that so outraged authorities with its ironic attitude toward the bourgeoisie, and its "attack on the dignity of Parliament and its ministers," that it was banned, and only re-released in 1929. (By then, a discouraged Feyder had left for Hollywood.) The story involves two cabinet ministers, one a former trade union leader (Albert Préjean) and the other a count (Henri Roussel); both are in love with the same woman, the cabaret dancer Suzanne (Gaby Morlay). Marcel Carné (Feyder's assistant director) notes the "stunning sense of rhythm and timing" of the film, which was based on a very successful stage play, "a boulevard drama," according to Carné, "that was not in the least polemical. But when its gentle ironies were recorded by the camera they played the role of incendiary bombs, sarcasm and insults to parliamentary institutions."