Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), César (1936) - The Marseille Trilogy - classic trio of Marcel Pagnol movies, directed by Alexander Korda, Marc Allégret and Pagnol himself

Rating 7.9/10 + 7.7/10 + 7.6/10
Runtime: 396 min (127/128/141)
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Alexander Korda/ Marc Allégret/ Marcel Pagnol
IMDb Link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022125/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022877/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027489/

Cast

Raimu ... César Ollivier
Pierre Fresnay ... Marius Ollivier
Orane Demazis ... Fanny
Fernand Charpin ... Honoré Panisse (as Charpin)
Alida Rouffe ... Honorine Cabanis
Paul Dullac ... Félix Escartefigue
Alexandre Mihalesco ... Piquoiseau (as Mihalesco)
Robert Vattier ... Albert Brun
Édouard Delmont ... Le Goelec
Paul Dullac ... Félix Escartefigue
Robert Vattier ... Aldebert Brun
Marcel Maupi ... Innocent Mangiapan (as Maupi)
Édouard Delmont ... Le docteur Felicien Venelle (as Delmont)
Milly Mathis ... Tante Claudine Foulon


Description: In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the Old Port of Marseille where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin) wants to wed Marius’s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), setting up a fateful romantic triangle whose story unfolds across a generation in the films of The Marseille Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history.


Marius (1931) - César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles and various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, comic spirit, tries to guide his son

Fanny (1932) - Marius has left, signed up for a five year hitch on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. In his few letters to his father César, he hardly mentions Fanny. When she finds she is pregnant, she considers her options: suicide, to raise the child on her own, to wait for Marius, or to marry Honoré Panisse, the older merchant who seeks her hand. These choices are emotional: to raise a bastard, to trust in Marius' eventual return, to believe he'll want to marry her, to save her mother from shame, to fool Panisse, to give her child a name. In scenes dramatizing Fanny's honesty, she talks to her mother, then Panisse, César, and later Marius, and she makes her choices.

César (1936) - Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.


Screens:

Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A-jQDKpEPRrM8EmHcEQ-FNLkbHyQMIZH

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.74 GB, 2000 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 690x576 (1.20:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 204 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Video : 3.30 GB, 3705 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 692x576 (1.20:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 88 MB, 96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Video : 2.02 GB, 2100 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 758x576 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 226 MB, 224 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian) posters and screenshots included