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The Baker’s Wife (Country: France; Year: 1938; Director: Marcel Pagnol; Writer: Marcel Pagnol)
A baker refuses to bake bread after his young wife runs away with a handsome shepherd. What begins as a personal humiliation soon becomes a communal crisis.
Jean De Florette (Country: Switzerland, France, Italy; Year: 1986; Director: Claude Berri; Writer: Claude Berri, Gérard Brach, Marcel Pagnol; Stars: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Ernestine Mazurowna, Armand Meffre, André Dupon, Pierre Nougaro, Jean Maurel, Roger Souza, Didier Pain, Pierre-Jean Rippert, Marc Betton, Clement Cal)
A greedy landowner conspires against the owner of an adjoining property to force him to sell.
Manon Of The Spring (Manon des sources) (Country: Switzerland, Italy, France; Year: 1986; Director: Claude Berri; Writer: Claude Berri, Gérard Brach, based on the novel by Marcel Pagnol; Stars: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy, Ticky Holgado, Jean Bouchaud, Elisabeth Depardieu, Gabriel Bacquier, Armand Meffre, André Dupon, Pierre Nougaro, Jean Maurel, Roger Souza)
A beautiful shepherdess is out for revenge against the men who caused her father's death.
A Magnificent Life (The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol) (Country: France, Belgium, US, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Sylvain Chomet; Writer: Sylvain Chomet, Marcel Pagnol; Stars: French version: Laurent Lafitte, Géraldine Pailhas, Thierry Garcia, Anaïs Petit, Vincent Fernandel, Véronique Philipponnat. English version: Matthew Gravelle, Lu Corfield, Jonathan Keeble, Celyn Jones, Jess Nesling, Flora Montgomery)
Animated consideration of the life of the cinema pioneer.
Topaze (Year: 1951; Director: Marcel Pagnol; Writer: Marcel Pagnol)
At imid and ineffectual tutor is dismissed from a boarding school after refusing to compromise his principles and reinvents himself as a cunning opportunist.
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