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Letters from My Windmill is a french film of genre Drama directed by Marcel Pagnol with Henri Crémieux
Letters from My Windmill (1954)
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Add to a movie listLetters from My Windmill (French: Les lettres de mon moulin) is a 1954 French comedy-drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Rellys, Robert Vattier, Fernand Sardou and Édouard Delmont. Set in the countryside of Provence, the film is based on three tales from Alphonse Daudet's 1869 short story collection Letters from My Windmill: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" and "The Secret of Master Cornille". It premiered on 5 November 1954 and had 2,399,645 admissions in France.
In 1968 Pagnol made a television film based on another story from the same collection, Le curé de Cucugnan. Roger Crouzet was hired again and reprised his role as Daudet from Letters from My Windmill.
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1/ L'elixir du Père Gaucher. Pour sauver l'abbaye de la ruine, le père Gaucher se lance dans la fabrication d'un élixir... Ou est-ce plutôt une liqueur ? 2/ Les ailes du moulin du vieux Maitre Cornille continuent de tourner alors qu’aucun villageois ne lui apporte de blé… D’où viennent donc tous ces sacs de farine ? Vivette révèlera-t-elle au monsieur de Paris, Alphonse Daudet, le secret de son grand-père, Maître Cornille ? 3/ Les trois messes basses. Une nuit de Noël, poussé par le Diable qui a pris les traits de son enfant de chœur, Dom Balaguère escamote les trois messes basses, en vue d'un réveillon parfumé aux truffes…Actors
Henri Crémieux
(Honarat Grapazzi)
Robert Vattier
(le père Abbé)
Roger Crouzet
(Alphonse Daudet)
Marcel Daxely
(Garrigou / le Diable)
Henri Vilbert
(Dom Balaguere)
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Rating74%
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Marius (1931)
, 2hDirected by Alexander Korda, Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Melodrama, Romance
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, 2h3Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Comedy
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Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
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The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
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Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
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, 2h20Directed by Marc Allégret, Yves Allégret, Pierre Prévert, Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Melodrama, Romance
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Actors Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Robert Vattier
Rating77%
The story takes place in Marseille, where Marius, the son of a barkeeper César, has a romance with Fanny, neighbourhood girl of the fish sales man in the harbor. Marius dreams of sailing away one day and travel the seven seas. Fanny soon discovers she is pregnant of Marius, a shameful position in their community since she's a single mother with a father unable to secure the future of her and her child. She agrees with her mother and father's advice to marry a more prosperous salesman in the harbor, Honoré Panisse, who is 30 years older than she is. A few months after the marriage and the birth of the baby Marius returns and tries to win back Fanny.
Topaze (1933)
, 1h43Directed by Louis Gasnier, Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
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Rating69%
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, 1h44Directed by Marcel Pagnol, Roger Lion
Origin France
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, 3h55Directed by Marcel Pagnol
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Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
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, 2h14Directed by Pierre Méré, Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Melodrama
Themes Films about families, La provence
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