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In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of Marseille, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius’s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangle, the story of which unfolds in a series of fateful twists in the films of The Marseille Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. “If Pagnol is not the greatest auteur of the sound film,” critic André Bazin wrote, “he is in any case something akin to its genius.”
Condition NEW
Actors: Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, Raimu
Directors: Marc Allégret, Alexander Korda, Marcel Pagnol
Format: Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 3
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: June 20, 2017
Run Time: 395 minutes
Cast & Crew
Raimu Cesar,Cesar Olivier
Pierre Fresnay Marius
Orane Demazis Fanny
André Fouché Cesariot
Fernand Charpin Honore Panisse
Alida Rouffe Honorine Cabanis
Milly Mathis Aunt Claudine Foulon
Paul Dullac Felix Escartefigue
Technical Credits
Alexander Korda Director
Marc Allégret Director
Marcel Pagnol Director
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