The man who turned his entire life into art — and made you wish you grew up in Provence.
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who made his life a work and his work a life's project.
Direction
Beziat weaves archive footage into living, breathing memory.
Acting
Luchini's narration — pure velvet, pure Pagnol worship.
Production
Unseen letters and family archives finally surface.
Director
Fabien Beziat
Marcel Pagnol
Self (archive footage)
Nicolas Pagnol
Self
Fabrice Luchini
Narrator (voice)
Marcel Achard
Self (archive footage)
Alexandre Arnaudy
Cigalon (archive footage)
Léon Bernard
Monsieur Poirier (archive footage)
Charles Blavette
Self / Antoine / Antonin (archive footage)
Fernand Charpin
Honoré Panisse / Baptiste Fabre / André Mazel (archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
Self (archive footage)
René Clair
Self (archive footage)
Raimu
Self / C. Olivier / A. Castanier / ... (archive footage)
Pierre Tchernia
Self / Interviewer (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pagnol remains the only filmmaker ever elected to the Académie Française — cinema as legitimate literature, finally.
The documentary reveals Pagnol's secret habit of casting locals from his actual childhood village, blurring documentary and fiction decades before it was fashionable.
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