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Marcel Pagnol is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer French born on 28 february 1895 at Aubagne (France)

Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol participated to 44 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 10 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Scriptwriter

Jean de Florette, 2h
Directed by Claude Berri, Pascal Baeumler, Xavier Castano
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Themes La provence, Films about the labor movement
Actors Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Élisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Hippolyte Girardot
Roles Novel
Rating80% 4.045464.045464.045464.045464.04546
Au milieu des années 1920 dans un petit village fictif de Provence perdu dans la garrigue, Les Bastides Blanches, Ugolin revient du service militaire. Ce jeune paysan a un rêve : gagner de l'argent en cultivant des œillets. Son oncle, César Soubeyran, dit « le Papet », est un vieux célibataire prêt à tout pour que son neveu réussisse et se marie, afin que se transmette son nom, dont Ugolin est l'unique héritier. L'aboutissement de ces projets nécessite une source sur ses terres, un bien extrêmement précieux. La « ferme des Romarins » conviendrait parfaitement.
The Well Digger's Daughter, 1h47
Directed by Daniel Auteuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, La provence
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Roles Novel
Rating69% 3.495383.495383.495383.495383.49538
Jacques Mazel, the son of a wealthy merchant, and Patricia Amoretti, daughter of a well-digger, live in a small village in the Provence region of France while Europe is at the brink of World War I. She has just turned 18 and is smitten with the handsome Jacques when he carries her across a stream to bring lunch to her father who is digging a well. After their second encounter Jacques, a French Air Force pilot, is unexpectedly reassigned. He must leave immediately to replace a pilot who recently broke his leg. Because he cannot meet Patricia as planned the next morning, he leaves an explanatory letter for her but his overly protective mother burns the letter. Patricia concludes Jacques rejected her because they come from different social classes. Later, Patricia discovers that Jacques has left her with child. The parents of Jacques reject the idea that their son conceived a child out of wedlock and refuse to acknowledge the baby. Her father, who had idolized her, sends Patricia to live with his sister in another village to spare his four other daughters from learning of the illegitimate child. Patricia declines an offer of marriage from her father's friend, Félipe, partly because her younger sister, Amanda, has a crush on him. Eventually, Jacques, who was thought to have been shot down by the Germans, returns from a POW camp and learns he has a son.

Director

The Well-Digger's Daughter, 2h51
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, La provence
Actors Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day, Fernand Charpin, Line Noro, Georges Grey
Rating72% 3.628043.628043.628043.628043.62804
Patricia, a peasant girl, becomes pregnant by Jacques, a military pilot from a local town family. He serves in World War I, while his family refuses to support the child and her father expels her from their home. Patricia stays with her aunt and gives birth to a boy. Jacques is reported killed in the war, and both families wish to meet his son, their new grandchild. Jacques is not dead, however; he returns and Patricia agrees to marry him.
Manon of the Spring, 3h55
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Raymond Pellegrin, Jacqueline Pagnol, Rellys, Henri Poupon, Anne Roudier, Robert Vattier
Rating74% 3.7168153.7168153.7168153.7168153.716815
En France dans les années 1920, dans un petit village de Provence près d'Aubagne, Les Bastides Blanches, les gendarmes recherchent Manon, une jeune sauvageonne de la région.
Topaze
Topaze (1951)
, 2h15
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Jacques Castelot, Marcel Vallée, Jacqueline Pagnol, Yvette Etiévant
Rating69% 3.4760953.4760953.4760953.4760953.476095
Professeur de morale à la pension Muche, Topaze est aussi sincère et sérieux que naïf. Il est secrètement amoureux d'Ernestine, la fille du directeur. Ce dernier, apprenant la nature des sentiments de son employé, le licencie sur-le-champ.
Nais
Nais (1945)
, 2h7
Directed by Marcel Pagnol, Raymond Chirat, Raymond Leboursier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Fernandel, Raymond Pellegrin, Jacqueline Pagnol, Henri Poupon, Germaine Kerjean, Henri Arius
Rating67% 3.3679753.3679753.3679753.3679753.367975
Toine, ouvrier et valet de ferme, est bossu et cette infirmité lui pèse car il aime en secret la belle Naïs. Celle-ci est la fille unique du père Micoulin, le métayer de la famille Rostaing, pour qui il travaille.

Scriptwriter

Manon of the Spring, 2h
Directed by Claude Berri
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes La provence
Actors Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy
Roles Novel
Rating79% 3.995173.995173.995173.995173.99517
Following the events of Jean de Florette, Manon, the daughter of Jean, is living in the countryside of Provence near Les Romarins, the farm that her father once owned. She has taken up residence with an elderly Piedmontese squatter couple who teach her to live off the land, tending to a herd of goats and hunting for birds and rabbits. Ugolin Soubeyran, also called Galinette (only by his uncle César), has begun a successful business growing carnations at Les Romarins with his uncle, César Soubeyran—also known as Papet—thanks to the water provided by the spring there.
My Father's Glory, 1h45
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about families, La provence
Actors Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Thérèse Liotard, Didier Pain, Julien Ciamaca, Victorien Delamare
Roles Novel
Rating75% 3.794113.794113.794113.794113.79411
This film is set in the period between 1900 and the First World War in 1914.
My Mother's Castle, 1h38
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about families, La provence
Actors Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Thérèse Liotard, Didier Pain, Julien Ciamaca, Victorien Delamare
Roles Novel
Rating75% 3.7886453.7886453.7886453.7886453.788645
This film, together with La gloire de mon père, is set in the period between 1900 and the First World War in 1914.
The Prize
The Prize (1950)
, 1h28
Directed by Jean Boyer, Robert Guez, Jean Bastia
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors André Bourvil, Jacqueline Pagnol, Germaine Dermoz, Yvette Etiévant, Suzanne Dehelly, Mireille Perrey
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.005733.005733.005733.005733.00573
Dans une petite ville de Normandie (Gisors dans la nouvelle de Maupassant), les dames patronnesses, ayant à leur tête M Husson, désirent attribuer un prix de vertu à la jeune fille la plus vertueuse de la commune. Aucune jouvencelle ne trouvant grâce aux yeux intransigeants de ces dames, Isidore, le benêt du village est choisi pour leur faire honte. La rosière sera donc un rosier, qui touchera le prix de cent mille francs. Celui-ci lui sera remis publiquement par le maire et la cérémonie sera suivie d'un banquet qui lui donnera l'occasion de s'enivrer pour la première fois. Enhardi par l'ivresse, il décide d'aller à Paris et rencontre sur la route la comtesse de Blonville, une jolie veuve membre du comité de M Husson. Celle-ci emmène le garçon avec elle à la capitale où elle finira par le déniaiser. L'ex-nigaud reviendra triomphalement au village quelques jours plus tard, pour épouser Marie, une paysanne qui le taquinait avant son départ.