Marius is a French theatre script written by Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française.-Biography:...

 that was later converted into a film of the same name. The film is a part of a trilogy which includes the films César (film)

César (film)

"César" is a 1936 French film, written and directed by Marcel Pagnol. It's the final part of his Marseille trilogy, which began with the film Marius and was followed by Fanny. In difference to these two movies "César"was not based on a play by Pagnol, but written directly as a film script...

(Marius' father) and Fanny

Fanny (1932 film)

Fanny is a 1932 French comedy film, directed by Marc Allégret based on the play by Marcel Pagnol. It's the second part in the Marseillaise film trilogy that started with Marius and concluded with César ...

(Marius' ex-fiancee).

Synopsis

The film takes place mostly in the waterfront bar of Cesar, Marius' father. Marius works in the bar, and his good friend since childhood, Fanny, is a vendor who works outside the bar. Marius has a hidden desire to travel to exotic places with the ship crews that part from the docks of Marseilles. This desire becomes exposed when a rich older man (Panisse) proposes to Fanny and Marius gets jealous. Marius' jealousy of Panisse is the first textual indication of the secret feelings that he has for her, but much to his surprise, the feelings are reciprocated by Fanny. She confesses that she loves Marius prompting him to reveal his plans of traveling the world to her, noting that being the wife of a man at sea is not a desirable life. After a few nights, it is discovered that they have slept together and Marius' father and Fanny's mother convince him to marry her. Marius becomes noticeably melancholy after proposing to Fanny until a few days later, the date of departure of a boat on which Marius was supposed to crew. Fanny, realizing that Marius is not truly happy being with her, decides to encourage him to leave. She helps distract his father while Marius sneaks onto the boat.

Cast (in credits order)

• Raimu
  Raimu
  Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire .-Biography:Born in Toulon in the Var département, he made his stage debut there in 1899. After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work...
  
   as Cesar Olivier
• Pierre Fresnay
  Pierre Fresnay
  Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France in 1897, he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film...
  
   as Marius
• Orane Demazis as Fanny
• Fernand Charpin as Honore Panisse
• Alida Rouffe as Honorine Cabanis
• Paul Dullac as Felix Escartefigue
• Alexandre Mihalesco as Piquoiseau
• Robert Vattier as Albert Brun
• Edouard Delmont as Le Goelec
• Milly Mathis as Tante Claudine Foulon
• Marcel Maupi as Innocent Mangiapan Le Chauffeur Du Ferry-Boat
• Lucien Callamand
  Lucien Callamand
  Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand was one of the earliest French film actors whose career transcended 6 decades of French cinema....
  
   as Le Quartier-Maitre Du Ferry-Boat
• Queret as Felicite
• Valentine Ribe as Un Client / A Customer
• Vassy as Un Arabe

In popular culture

• The famed restaurateur and founder of California cuisine, Alice Waters
  Alice Waters
  Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.Waters opened the restaurant in 1971. It has consistently ranked...
  
  , was so taken by this film that she named her Berkeley restaurant "Chez Panisse". The café upstairs from the restaurant is decorated with posters from the films "Marius", "Fanny", and "César". (http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0022877/trivia)
• The main characters from the films Marius, Fanny and César make a cameo appearance in the Asterix
  Asterix
  Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...
  
   comic book Asterix and the Banquet
  Asterix and the Banquet
  Asterix and the Banquet is the fifth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo . It was first serialized in the magazine Pilote, issues 172-213, in 1963.-Plot:...
  
  . The card playing scene in the comic book is a reference to a similar scene in this film. (http://www.mage.fst.uha.fr/asterix/allusion/pagnol.html) (http://www.asterix.com/encyclopedia/characters/cesar-drinklikafix.html)

External links

• Vidéo of the movie