Marius (1931 film)

1931 film

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Marius

Directed by| Alexander Korda
Written by| Marcel Pagnol
Based on| Marius
a 1929 play
by Marcel Pagnol
Produced by| Robert Kane
Marcel Pagnol
Starring| Raimu
Pierre Fresnay
Orane Demazis
Fernand Charpin
Alida Rouffe
*Paul Dullac [fr]
Alexandre Mihalesco
Cinematography| Theodore J. Pahle
Edited by| Roger Mercanton
Music by| Francis Gromon
Distributed by| Les Films Paramount

Release date

* 10 October 1931 (1931-10-10)

Running time

| 127 minutes
Country| France
Language| French[1]

Marius is a 1931 French romantic drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, and Alida Rouffe. Based on the 1929 play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol, it is the first part of the Marseille Trilogy, which also includes the films Fanny (1932) and César (1936). The film was made for the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. A separate Swedish-language version, titled Longing for the Sea and directed by John W. Brunius, was also released in 1931, and a German-language version, titled The Golden Anchor, also directed by Korda, was released the following year.

A restoration of the film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The restored film was also given a limited re-release in the United States by Janus Films on 4 January 2017, first premiering at the Film Forum in New York City.[3]

## Plot

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César has a waterfront bar in Marseille. His son, Marius, works for him, and Fanny, Marius' friend since childhood, sells cockles at a stall just outside the door. Marius loves Fanny, but he tries to hide his feelings because he secretly longs to travel to exotic places on one of the ships that depart from the nearby docks, and he does not want Fanny to have to live the life of the wife of a sailor.

Honoré Panisse, a wealthy middle-aged widower who is an old friend of César, proposes to Fanny, and Marius gets jealous. He tells Fanny about a job on a ship that he hopes to get, and Fanny admits her feelings for him. The job falls through, and Marius and Fanny secretly begin a relationship.

When Fanny's mother catches Marius and Fanny sleeping together, she talks with César about getting the pair married. It is understood that Marius and Fanny are engaged, but Marius receives an offer to work on a ship that is going on a five-year voyage. He refuses the opportunity because his love for Fanny would not permit her to leave her. But Fanny, realizing he will not be truly happy after abandoning his dream of a seafaring life, decides to encourage him to leave by letting him think that she would rather marry Panisse. When Marius has persuaded himself that Fanny prefers Panisse to him, he decides to sneak away to the boat. As Fanny listens to César talk about how he will rearrange the apartment above the bar for her and Marius to live there, she cannot take it any longer and faints.

## Cast

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* Raimu as César Ollivier
* Pierre Fresnay as Marius Ollivier
* Orane Demazis as Fanny Cabanis
* Fernand Charpin as Honoré Panisse
* Alida Rouffe as Honorine Cabanis
* Paul Dullac [fr] as Félix Escartefique
* Alexandre Mihalesco as Piquoiseau
* Robert Vattier as Albert Brun
* Édouard Delmont as Le Goelec, who arranges crews for boats

## Cast recordings

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An audio cast recording of select scenes, with minor rewrites, was made at the studios Pelouze in Paris in March 1932 and on 2 and 14 December 1933 for Columbia Records by the main cast (Raimu, Fresnay, Demazis, Charpin, Dullac, Vattier) and Henri Vilbert. It was later re-issued on compact disc.[4]

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "La leçon de bistrot" (The Bartending Lesson)| 03:11
2.| "Le retour de M. Brun" (Monsieur Brun’s Return)| 03:15
3.| "Je sors" (I’m Going Out)| 02:58
4.| "Pauvre Félicité" (Poor Félicité)| 03:13
5.| "Je t’aime bien, Papa" (I Like You Very Much, Papa)| 06:33
6.| "La partie de cartes" (The Card Game)| 06:11
7.| "Le petit déjeuner et l’histoire de Zoé" (The Breakfast and Zoé’s Story)| 05:57

In 1960, Pagnol’s distribution company, the Compagnie méditerranéenne de films, released the film soundtrack on disc, interspersed with narrative comments and descriptions spoken by Pagnol. In complement came a reading of Pagnol's preface to the play, which was written for the publication of his complete works and was later collected in the 1981 volume Confidences, and of recollections about the production of the film, which were later published as part of the augmented edition of his 1934 essay French: Cinématurgie de Paris. The album was re-issued on CD by Frémeaux & Associés, in their “Librairie sonore” series.[5]

## In popular culture

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* Alice Waters, the famed restaurateur and founder of California cuisine, was so taken by the Marseille Trilogy 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.[6]
* The main characters of the Marseille Trilogy make a cameo appearance in the Asterix comic book Asterix and the Banquet. The card-playing scene in the comic book is a reference to a similar scene in Marius.[7][8]

## See also

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* Port of Seven Seas (1938) – an American film based on both Marius and Fanny starring Wallace Beery and directed by James Whale[9]
* Fanny (1961) – a non-musical American film based on the 1954 stage musical adaptation of the Marseille Trilogy
* Marius (2013) – a French film adapted by, directed by, and starring Daniel Auteuil

## References

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1. ^ "Marius" (in French). Unifrance. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
2. ^ "Cannes Classics 2015". Cannes Film Festival. 29 April 2015. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
3. ^ Srisavasdi, Greg (3 January 2017). "Marcel Pagnol's 'Marseille Trilogy' Hits The Film Forum". Hollywood Outbreak. Hollywood Outbreak. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
4. ^ "Notice bibliographique — Le théâtre parisien de Sarah Bernhardt à Sacha Guitry". BnF Catalogue général (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. 1993. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
5. ^ "Marius – Marcel Pagnol (préface sonore inédite)" (in French). Vincennes: Frémeaux & Associés. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
6. ^ "Fanny (1932)". Retrieved 16 March 2018 - via www.imdb.com.
7. ^ Rivière, Stéphane. "Les allusions dans Astérix : Marcel Pagnol". www.mage.fst.uha.fr. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
8. ^ "Astérix – Page introuvable". www.asterix.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
9. ^ "Port of Seven Seas (1938) - IMDb". Akas.imdb.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2013.

## External links

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* Marius at IMDb
* Marius at the TCM Movie Database
* The Marseille Trilogy at Box Office Mojo
* Marius at Rotten Tomatoes
* Vidéo of the movie
* The Marseille Trilogy: Life Goes to the Movies an essay by Michael Atkinson at the Criterion Collection

* v
* t
* e

Films by Alexander Korda

As director|

* Watchhouse in the Carpathians (1914)
* The Duped Journalist (1914)
* Tutyu and Totyo (1914)
* Lyon Lea (1915)
* The Officer's Swordknot (1915)
* White Nights (1916)
* The Grandmother (1916)
* Tales of the Typewriter (1916)
* The Man with Two Hearts (1916)
* The One Million Pound Note (1916)
* Cyclamen (1916)
* Struggling Hearts (1916)
* The Laughing Saskia (1916)
* Miska the Magnate (1916)
* St. Peter's Umbrella (1917)
* The Stork Caliph (1917)
* Magic (1917)
* Harrison and Barrison (1917)
* Faun (1918)
* The Man with the Golden Touch (1918)
* Mary Ann (1918)
* Ave Caesar! (1919)
* White Rose (1919)
* Yamata (1919)
* Man of Gold (1919)
* Neither at Home or Abroad (1919)
* Number 111 (1919)
* The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
* Masters of the Sea (1922)
* A Vanished World (1922)
* Samson and Delilah (1922)
* The Unknown Tomorrow (1923)
* Everybody's Woman (1924)
* Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
* Dancing Mad (1925)
* Madame Wants No Children (1926)
* A Modern Dubarry (1927)
* The Stolen Bride (1927)
* The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
* Yellow Lily (1928)
* Night Watch (1928)
* Love and the Devil (1929)
* The Squall (1929)
* Her Private Life (1929)
* Lilies of the Field (1930)
* Women Everywhere (1930)
* The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
* The Men Around Lucy (1931)
* Rive gauche (1931)
* Marius (1931)
* Longing for the Sea (1931)
* The Golden Anchor (1932)
* Service for Ladies (1932)
* Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
* The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
* La dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
* The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
* The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
* Rembrandt (1936)
* That Hamilton Woman (1941)
* Perfect Strangers (1945)
* An Ideal Husband (1947)

As producer only|

* Men of Tomorrow (1932)
* That Night in London (1932)
* Women Who Play (1932)
* Strange Evidence (1933)
* Counsel's Opinion (1933)
* Cash (1933)
* Catherine the Great (1934)
* The Private Life of the Gannets (1934) (short)
* The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
* Things Are Looking Up (1935)
* Sanders of the River (1935)
* The Ghost Goes West (1935)
* Things to Come (1936)
* I Stand Condemned (1936)
* Men Are Not Gods (1936)
* Forget Me Not (1936)
* The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
* Fire Over England (1937)
* I, Claudius (1937) (unfinished)
* Dark Journey (1937)
* Elephant Boy (1937)
* Farewell Again (1937)
* Storm in a Teacup (1937)
* Knight Without Armour (1937)
* The Squeaker (1937)
* Paradise for Two (1937)
* The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
* South Riding (1938)
* The Challenge (1938)
* Prison Without Bars (1938)
* Q Planes (1939)
* The Four Feathers (1939)
* The Rebel Son (1939)
* The Spy in Black (1939)
* The Lion Has Wings (1939)
* Over the Moon (1939)
* 21 Days (1940)
* Conquest of the Air (1940)
* The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
* Old Bill and Son (1941)
* Lydia (1941)
* To Be or Not to Be (1942)
* Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
* The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)
* A Man About the House (1947)
* Mine Own Executioner (1947)
* Night Beat (1948)
* Anna Karenina (1948)
* The Winslow Boy (1948)
* The Fallen Idol (1948)
* Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
* That Dangerous Age (1949)
* The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
* Saints and Sinners (1949)
* The Third Man (1949)
* The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
* A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
* The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
* Storm Over the Nile (1955)
* Richard III (1955)
* Smiley (1956)

* v
* t
* e

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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