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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

Rating: 7.4/10 (93 votes)


Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy

  • Marius

    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

    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

    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

  • Raimu

    Raimu

    César Ollivier

  • Pierre Fresnay

    Pierre Fresnay

    Marius Ollivier, fils de César

  • Orane Demazis

    Orane Demazis

    Fanny Cabanis, fille d'Honorine

  • Fernand Charpin

    Fernand Charpin

    Maître Honoré Panisse

  • Robert Vattier

    Robert Vattier

    Monsieur Brun

  • Paul Dullac

    Paul Dullac

    Félix Escartefigue

  • Alida Rouffe

    Alida Rouffe

    Honorine Cabanis

  • Alexandre Mihalesco

    Alexandre Mihalesco

    Piquoiseau

  • Édouard Delmont

    Édouard Delmont

    Le Goelec

  • Lucien Callamand

    Lucien Callamand

    Le quartier-maître du ferry-boat (uncredited)

  • Milly Mathis

    Milly Mathis

    Tante Claudine Foulon (uncredited)

  • Marcel Maupi

    Marcel Maupi

    Innocent Mangiapan le chauffeur du ferry-boat (uncredited)