Synopsis
Marius embarked on “La Malaisie”, yielding to the irrepressible call of the sea. He left behind his old father César and his fiancée Fanny, who was carrying his child. Without news of the man she has loved for several months, the young woman resolves to marry the brave Honoré Panisse to give a father to her child. Very much in love with Fanny and delighted to have a child, Panisse adopts little Césariot. But one day, Marius returns…
Technical data
- Genre: Drama
- Duration : 2h20
- Director: Marc Allégret, assisted byYves Allégret, Pierre Prévert and Éli Lotar
- Screenplay: Marcel Pagnol
- Photography : Nicolas Toporkoff, Roger Hubert, Georges Benoît, André Dantan
- Assistant : Henri Alekan
- Set design: Gabriel Scognamillo
- Music : Vincent Scotto, arrangements by Georges Sellers
- Writer : Françoise Giroud under the name of Gourdji
- Set photographer: Roger Forster
- Sound : William Bell Editing : Jean Mamy
- Production: Marcel Pagnol and Roger Richebé or Marcel Pagnol and Pierre Braunberger
- Production managers: Dominique Drouin and Roland Tual
- Production companies: Les Films Marcel Pagnol, Braunberger-Richebé
- Distribution company : Compagnie parisienne de location de films
- Shooting: exterior in Marseille, interior in the Billancourt studios
Distribution
- Raimu: César Ollivier
- Pierre Fresnay: Marius Ollivier, his son
- Orane Demazis: Fanny Cabanis
- Alida Rouffe: Honorine Cabanis, mother of Fanny
- Charpin: Honoré Panisse, Fanny’s husband
- Auguste Mourriès: Félix Escartefigue
- Robert Vattier: Aldebert Brun
- Milly Mathis: Claudine Foulon, Fanny’s aunt
- Marcel Maupi: Innocent Mangiapan, the ferry driver
- Édouard Delmont: D. Félicien Venelle
- Odette Roger: Fortunette
- Annie Toinon: Amélie
- Louis Boulle: Elzéar Panisse
- Pierre Prévert: a tramway passenger
- André Gide: an extra
