Summary
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.
Details
Release Date: October 9, 1931
Runtime: 128 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: FR
Rating: ⭐ 7.4/10 (93 votes)
Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy
Marius
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.
Fanny
Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse.
César
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilo'gy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.
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Cast
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Pierre Fresnay
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Fernand Charpin
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Paul Dullac
Félix Escartefigue
Alida Rouffe
Honorine Cabanis
Alexandre Mihalesco
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Édouard Delmont
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Lucien Callamand
Le quartier-maître du ferry-boat (uncredited)
Milly Mathis
Tante Claudine Foulon (uncredited)
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Innocent Mangiapan le chauffeur du ferry-boat (uncredited)