Harvest (1937 film)

1937 film

Harvest

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Directed by| Marcel Pagnol
Screenplay by| Marcel Pagnol
Based on| Second Harvest by Jean Giono
Produced by| Marcel Pagnol
Starring| Fernandel
Orane Demazis
Marguerite Moreno
Gabriel Gabrio
Cinematography| Willy Faktorovitch
Roger Ledru
Pierre Arnaudy
Henri Darriès
Edited by| Suzanne de Troye
Music by| Arthur Honegger

Production
company

Les Films Marcel Pagnol

Distributed by| Compagnie méditerranéenne de films

Release date

* 29 October 1937 (1937-10-29)

Running time

| 150 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

Harvest (French: Regain) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno and Gabriel Gabrio. The narrative revolves around a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again. The film is based on the 1930 novel Second Harvest by Jean Giono. It was released in France on 28 October 1937 and in the United States on 2 October 1939.

## Cast

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* Fernandel as Urbain Gédémus
* Gabriel Gabrio as Panturle
* Orane Demazis as Irène Charles, "Arsule"
* Marguerite Moreno as Zia Mamèche, "la Mamèche"
* Robert Le Vigan as the brigadier
* Henri Poupon as Panturle's farmer friend
* Odette Roger as Alphonsine
* Milly Mathis as Belline

## Reception

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Frank Nugent of The New York Times described Harvest as "a film of utter serenity and great goodness, so reverently played and so compassionately directed that it is far less an entertainment work than it is a testament to the dignity of man and to his consonance with the spinning of the spheres. Such faults as it possesses are mechanical; uneven editing, particularly in the early scenes; skimping of a few sequences that might have received more attention; attenuation of others that could have been cut. The flaws are obvious enough, yet they should not count too seriously against the work as a whole and still less seriously when one appreciates that the editing was on this side of the water (for space and time requirements) and cannot properly be held against Marcel Pagnol, its director, producer and adapter."[1]

## See also

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* 1939 in film
* Cinema of France

## References

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1. ^ Nugent, Frank S. (1939-10-03). "'Harvest,' Jean Giono's Pastoral of Provence, Opens at the World After Reversal of Censor Ban". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-10.

## External links

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* Harvest at IMDb

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Marcel Pagnol

Drama|

* Topaze (1928)
* Marius (1929)
* Fanny (1931)

Prose|

* My Father's Glory (1957)
* My Mother's Castle (1957)
* Le secret du Masque de Fer (1965)
* The Water of the Hills (1962)

Films directed|

* Jofroi (1934)
* Angèle (1934)
* Merlusse (1935)
* César (1936)
* Topaze (1936)
* Harvest (1937)
* The Baker's Wife (1938)
* Heartbeat (1938)
* The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
* Naïs (1945)
* The Pretty Miller Girl (1949)
* Topaze (1951)
* Manon of the Spring (1952)
* Letters from My Windmill (1954)

Films produced|

* Marius (1931)
* Fanny (1932)
* Tartarin of Tarascon (1934)
* Monsieur Brotonneau (1939)
* Alone in Paris (1951)
* Carnival (1953)

Film adaptations and remakes|

* Jean de Florette (1986)
* Manon of the Spring (1986)
* My Father's Glory (1990)
* My Mother's Castle (1990)
* The Well-Digger's Daughter (2011)
* Marius (2013)
* Fanny (2013)

Miscellaneous|

* Souvenirs d'enfance
* A Magnificent Life
* Jacqueline Pagnol

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best International Film

1937–1968|

* Mayerling (1937)
* Grand Illusion (1938)
* Harvest (1939)
* The Baker's Wife (1940)
* No Award (1941–1945)
* Rome, Open City (1946)
* To Live in Peace (1947)
* Paisan (1948)
* Bicycle Thieves (1949)
* L'amore (1950)
* Miracle in Milan (1951)
* Forbidden Games (1952)
* Justice Is Done (1953)
* Gate of Hell (1954)
* Umberto D. (1955)
* The Road (1956)
* Gervaise (1957)
* My Uncle (1958)
* The 400 Blows (1959)
* Hiroshima My Love (1960)
* The Sweet Life (1961)
* No Award (1962)
* 8½ (1963)
* That Man from Rio (1964)
* Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
* The Shop on Main Street (1966)
* The War Is Over (1967)
* War and Peace (1968)
* No Award (1969–1977)

1978–present|

* Bread and Chocolate (1978)
* The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1979)
* My American Uncle (1980)
* Pixote (1981)
* Time Stands Still (1982)
* Fanny and Alexander (1983)
* A Sunday in the Country (1984)
* Ran (1985)
* The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
* My Life as a Dog (1987)
* Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
* Story of Women (1989)
* The Nasty Girl (1990)
* Europa Europa (1991)
* Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
* Farewell My Concubine (1993)
* Three Colours: Red (1994)
* Wild Reeds (1995)
* The White Balloon (1996)
* Ponette (1997)
* The Celebration (1998)
* All About My Mother (1999)
* Yi Yi (2000)
* In the Mood for Love (2001)
* And Your Mother Too (2002)
* City of God (2003)
* Bad Education (2004)
* 2046 (2005)
* Army of Shadows (2006)
* The Lives of Others (2007)
* 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)
* Summer Hours (2009)
* Carlos (2010)
* A Separation (2011)
* Amour (2012)
* Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
* Ida (2014)
* Timbuktu (2015)
* Toni Erdmann (2016)
* BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
* Cold War (2018)
* Parasite (2019)
* Bacurau (2020)
* The Worst Person in the World (2021)
* EO (2022)
* Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
* All We Imagine as Light (2024)

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