Faithfully adapted from the enormously popular (over 1,000 performances) stage play by Marcel Pagnol, MARIUS was the first in a trilogy of films evoking, in richly sentimental and gently satirical style, waterfront life in Marseilles in the late 1920s and early 30s. Though still open to the
criticism leveled at the time, that this was little more than canned theater, it's vastly enjoyable nonetheless, with the great Raimu stealing the show in the role (reprised from the stage version) of cafe owner Cesar. Cesar's son Marius (Pierre Fresnay) works at his father's Bar de la Marine and
loves fish-stall worker Fanny (Orane Demazis, Pagnol's longtime companion and leadi...
Released:
1931
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins