Synopsis
Seduced, then abandoned, Angèle soon finds herself in a brothel in Marseille. Daughter-mother of a little boy, she returns to the village where her father locks her in the cellar of the farm with her illegitimate offspring.
Technical data
- Genre: drama
- Duration: 150 minutes (reduced to 125 minutes)
- Release date: October 26, 1934 in Paris (in September in Marseille)
- Director: Marcel Pagnol
- Screenplay: Marcel Pagnol after the novel Un de Baumugnesby Jean Giono
- Adaptation and dialogue: Marcel Pagnol
- Music : Vincent Scotto
- Musical direction : Georges Sellers
- Artistic Director: Charles Brun
- Photography: Willy Faktorovitch, Charly Willy-Gricha, Roger Ledru Sound: Jean Lecoq, Bardisbanian, recorded on RCA sound truck
- Editing: Suzanne de Troye, André Robert, assisted by Jeannette Ginestet
- Decors: Marius Brouquier, builder of the real house of La Treille
- Set photographer : Roger Corbeau
- Production: Marcel Pagnol
- Production manager: René Pagnol
- Production and distribution companies: Les Films Marcel Pagnol
Distribution
- Fernandel: Saturnin, the farmhand
- Orane Demazis: Angèle Barbaroux, the daughter
- Henri Poupon: Clarius Barbaroux, the farmer, Angèle’s father
- Édouard Delmont: Amédée, a farm worker
- Annie Toinon: Philomène Barbaroux, the farmer, mother of Angèle
- Jean Servais: Albin, the farm worker in love with Angèle
- Andrex: the Louis, pimp
- Charles Blavette: Tonin, the grinder
- Fernand Flament: Jo
- Henri Rellys: a peasant (cut in the editing)
- Darcelys: the tattooed
- Blanche Poupon: Florence
- Marcelle Vial: the little servant of the café-tabac
- Thommeray: a man of knowledge
- Juliette Petit: the Esmenarde
- Delaurme: the bar owner
- Edmond Paul: the man with the white horse
