Synopsis
A teacher at the Muche boarding school, Topaze, a lousy tutor unable to cheat on the grades of rich dunces, is fired. Reduced to unemployment, he gives private lessons to the nephew of Suzy Courtois, a semi-mondaine… He then becomes aware of the vanity of his educational mission and becomes a cynical scoundrel…
Technical data
- Genre: Comedy
- Duration: 2h15
- Direction, script and dialogues: Marcel Pagnol after his play Topaze
- Assistant director: François Gir
- Sets: Hugues Laurent, Roger Jodelay and Robert Giordani for the models
- Costumes and dresses by Hélène Perdrière: Schiaparelli
- Photography: Philippe Agostini
- Cameraman: Jean-Marie Maillols, assisted by Pierre Ancrenoy and Clément Maure
- Editing: Monique Lacombe, assisted by Jacqueline Bultez
- Music: Raymond Legrand
- Sound: Marcel Royné, assisted by Barthelmy and Henry Girbal
- Production manager: Jean Martinetti
- Make-up: Nicole Bouban and Ralph
- Set photographer: Igor Kalinine
- Assistant editor: Jacqueline Bultez
- Scriptwriter: Régine Hernou
- Production Secretary: Annette Millet-Julian
- Director: Marcel Bryau and Georges Baze
- Outside director: Géo Saudry
- Accessory designer: Dubouilh and Max Lecointre
- Production company: Les Films Marcel Pagnol
- Shooting: Franstudio in Saint-Maurice
Distribution
- Fernandel: Albert Topaze, teacher at the Muche boarding house
- Hélène Perdrière: Suzy Courtois
- Marcel Vallée: Mr. Muche, the director of the boarding house; Marcel Vallée played the same role 18 years earlier in the adaptation by Louis J. Gasnier.
- Jacqueline Pagnol: Ernestine Muche, her daughter
- Pierre Larquey: Thames, a teacher; Pierre Larquey played the same role 18 years earlier in the adaptation by Louis J. Gasnier.
- Jacques Morel: Régis de Castel-Vernac
- Jacques Castelot: Roger Gaëtan de Bersac
- Milly Mathis: the baroness of Pitart-Vergniolles
- Yvette Etiévant: the typist of Topaze
- Robert Moor: the venerable old man
- Rivers Cadet: the police officer
- Marcel Loche: a servant
- Georges Montal
