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The Baker's Wife is a french film of genre Drama directed by Marcel Pagnol released in USA on 20 february 1940 with Raimu
The Baker's Wife (1938)
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Add to a movie listThe Baker's Wife (French: La femme du boulanger) is a 1938 French comedy film directed by Marcel Pagnol. It is based on the novel Blue Boy by French author Jean Giono and became the basis of the American musical The Baker's Wife.
Synopsis
The peacefulness of a village is shattered when the wife of the local baker runs off with a handsome shepherd. In his despair, the baker becomes heartbroken and no longer bakes bread. The villages organize forces to bring the wife back to her husband, and back to their daily bread.Actors
Raimu
(Aimable Castanier)
Ginette Leclerc
(Aurélie Castanier)
Charles Moulin
(Dominique, le berger)
Fernand Charpin
(The Marquis Castan de Venelles)
Robert Vattier
(the priest)
Marcel Pagnol
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Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Melodrama, Romance
Themes La provence, Théâtre, Films based on plays
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Rating77%
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Genres Drama, Comedy, Melodrama
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Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
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After a brief introduction to the principal characters, the film follows Asterix as he encounters a group of Roman legionaries in the forest. Despite being significantly outnumbered, Asterix leaves the Romans beaten and bruised for daring to interrupt his wild boar hunt. Their state upon their return to camp prompts the leader Phonus Balonus to seek the secret behind the Gauls' seemingly superhuman strength. Phonus selects a volunteer (by means of a single round of musical chairs) to pose as a Gaul in order to infiltrate the village; the unlucky loser is a short, slack-tongued misfit named Caligula Minus. He is dressed in a wig, false moustache and traditional Gaulish dress and led in chains through the forest as a prisoner, awaiting rescue by the Gauls. Sure enough, Asterix and Obelix free Minus and believe his flimsy cover story that he is a Gaul from Belgium.
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