Alexander Korda

Marius

Marius

Adapting his hit play Marius for the screen two years after its stage premiere, Marcel Pagnol turned his inimitable creative energies to the new medium of sound cinema in a felicitous collaboration with the Hungarian-born director Alexander Korda, soon to leave his mark on British cinema. Young Marius and Fanny begin to recognize that their lifelong friendship has blossomed into romance, but their hopes of marriage are left unrealized when Marius cannot overcome his longing to go to sea, against the wishes of his adoring father, César, but with Fanny’s selfless encouragement. Pagnol and Korda bring a keening lyricism to this tale of lovers torn between devotion and the restless urge for adventure, a conflict that begins to shape their destinies in ways they could never have predicted.

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Film Info

  • France
  • 1931
  • 127 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.19:1
  • French
  • Spine #882

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Marius
Cast
Raimu
César Ollivier
Pierre Fresnay
Marius Ollivier
Orane Demazis
Fanny Cabanis
Fernand Charpin
Honoré Panisse
Alida Rouffe
Honorine Cabanis
Paul Dullac
Félix Escartefigue
Alexandre Mihalesco
Piquoiseau
Robert Vattier
Monsieur Brun
Édouard Delmont
Le Goelec
Credits
Director
Alexander Korda
Screenplay
Marcel Pagnol
Producer
Robert T. Kane
Cinematography
Ted Pahle
Editor
Roger Spiri-Mercanton
Set design
Vincent Korda
Set design
Alfred Junge

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