Synopsis
The naïve and quite discreet Professor Topaz will become a businessman of great stature after his internship as a tutor to a most refined lady who is dating a cynical city councilman.
Pagnol, unhappy with the treatment inflicted on his work, shot his own adaptations in 1936 and 1951.
Technical data
- Genre: Comedy
- Duration: 1h43
- Director: Louis Gasnier
- Screenplay: Louis Gasnier and Léopold Marchand after the play by Marcel Pagnol
- Set design: René Renoux
- Costumes: Elsa Schiaparelli
- Photography: Fred Langenfeld
- Production: Robert T. Kane
- Production company: Paramount France
Distribution
- Louis Jouvet: Albert Topaze
- Marcel Vallée: Oscar Muche, director of the school
- Simone Héliard: Ernestine Muche, her daughter
- Pierre Larquey: Henri Tamise, colleague and friend of Topaze
- Paul Pauley: Régis Castel-Bénac, city councilor
- Edwige Feuillère: Suzy Courtois, woman maintained by Castel-Bénac
- Maurice Rémy: Roger de Tréville, former “prête-nom
- Jeanne Loury: the Baroness Pitart-Vergnolles
- Camille Beuve: the blackmailer
- Henri Vilbert: a police officer
- Jacqueline Delubac: a typist
- Micheline Bernard : the first typist
- Raymonde Debrennes: the second typist
