Synopsis
Fanny, abandoned by Marius, marries Panisse who adopts Césariot, the child of love, and raises him as his son. Today, Césariot is an adult and Panisse is dying. Fanny reveals the truth to her son, who then decides to go in search of Marius, his father.
In 1946, Pagnol would talk about his often stormy relationship with actor Raimu. Even in difficult moments, and there were many of them between these two men who had the same accent but also the same “whole” temperament, they found the tone and words to talk to each other. They were angry “to death” in order to better find each other afterwards. They both considered, like Caesar and Panisse, that nothing could be serious enough to justify the most irreparable of losses, the loss of a friend.
THE PAGNOL YEARS – April 1989
Texts by Claude Beylie, Jean Douchet, Paul Giannoli and Jean-Charles Tacchella presented by Pierre Lagnand.
Technical data
- Genre: melodrama
- Duration : 2h12
- Director: Marcel Pagnol
- Assistants : Pierre Méré and Pierre Arnaudy
- Screenplay: Marcel Pagnol
- Photography : Willy Faktorovitch
- Second operators : Charly Willy-Gricha and Roger Ledru
- Editing: Suzanne de Troeye, assisted by Jeannette Ginestet
- Sets: Marius Brouquier
- Sound recording : Voisin et Cie, G.I. Kraemer process, Thomson-Houston license
- Sound engineer : Georges Gérardot
- Assistants: J. Coutellier and J. Bañuls
- Music: Vincent Scotto, Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Georges Sellers
- Machinery and Lighting : Albert Spanna and Antoine Rossi
- Assistants: Latiere, F. Avella, Henri Garcia, Michel Scotto, and Francillon
- Masons: Marius Brouquier, Ambrosi, and Olivi
- Furniture : Maison David Frères
- Decoration : Galibert
- Make-up: Albino Constanzo
- Development and printing of the Marcel Pagnol Films laboratories in Marseille, under the direction of Albert Assouad
- Assistants: Clément Maure, Le-Van-Kim, and André Robert
- Production Manager: Charles Pons
- Assistants : Léon Bourelly, Jean Adam, and Fernand Bruno
- Production: Marcel Pagnol for Les Films Marcel Pagnol
- Shooting : exteriors in Marseille, Toulon and Cassis. Interiors in the Marcel Pagnol studios in Marseille.
Distribution
- Raimu: César Ollivier,
- Pierre Fresnay: Marius Ollivier, his son
- Orane Demazis: Fanny Panisse
- Fernand Charpin: Honoré Panisse, Fanny’s husband
- André Fouché: Césariot Panisse, son of Fanny and Marius
- Alida Rouffe: Honorine Cabanis, mother of Fanny
- Milly Mathis: Claudine Foulon, Fanny’s aunt
- Paul Dullac: Félix Escartefigue, former captain of the ferryboat
- Robert Vattier: Aldebert Brun, known as “Mr. Brun”, retired customs inspector
- Marcel Maupi: Innocent Mangiapan, the ferry driver
- Édouard Delmont:Dr. Félicien Venelle
- Jean Castan: the choirboy
- Robert Bassac: Pierre Dromard, Parisian friend of Césariot
- Rellys: the employee of Panisse
- Odette Roger: the hotel maid
- Doumel: Fernand, Marius’ partner
- Thommeray (Charles Marius François Toinon): Elzéar Bonnegrâce, the priest of Saint-Victor
- Charblay: Henri, owner of the bistro in Toulon
- Albert Spanna: the letter carrier
