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The Marseille Trilogy

The Marseille Trilogy
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Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin
Director: Alexander Korda, Marc Allégret, Marcel Pagnol
Plot Sypnosis:

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."

Release Details

Movie Release Year: 1931
Tech Specs & Release Details

Length: 395
Specs: 3-Discs
Video Resolution/Codec: 1080p/AVC MPEG-4
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.19:1, 1.371
Audio Formats: French LPCM Mono
Subtitles/Captions: English
Special Features: PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol’s memoirs