LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL

Lettres de Mon Moulin The writer Alphonse Daudet visits provincial village where he hears three different stories. In the first tale, a group of monks set out to produce and bottle their own liquor. In the second, a gourmand Priest is tricked into temptation by the Devil. Finally, a Miller pretends that his antiquated mill is still, profitably, in business.

Direction and script by Marcel Pagnol. Photo by Willy. Music by Henri Thomasi. Cast; Roger Crouzet, Henri Cremieux, Edouard Delmont, Henri Vilbert, Fernand Sardou.

France, 1954. 134m Subtitled
ISBN 1-55881-267-9
$29.95

THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
La Fille Du Puisatier

The well digger’s daughter finds herself seduced and abandoned and his simple assistant offers to marry her and accept the child as his own. 'The subjects of my films are simple, for I find there is no art outside ordinary places and people,' —Pagnol

Directed by Marcel Pagnol. Script; Marcel Pagnol. Photo; Willy. Music; Vincent Scotto. Cast; Raimu, Fernandel, Charpin, Josette Day

France 1940 131m Subtitled.
ISBN 1-55881-265-2
$29.95

MARIUS

Marius works in his father’s seaside cafe in Marseilles but dreams of an adventurous life on the high seas. His desire for the sea is so overwhelming that he abandons plans to marry his childhood sweetheart , Fanny, and joins the merchant navy. But Marius is unaware that Fanny is pregnant. Thus, begins Pagnol’s trilogy This was Pagnol’s first film production of his successful play using almost the same stage cast. “The three films are fictionalized portraits of Marseilles life and characters described by a wonderful storyteller, a humorist who created pathos without Sentimentality.”—Holt’s foreign Film Guide Director;

Alexander Korda. Script; Marcel Pagnol. Photo; Ted Pahle. Music; Francis Grammon. Cast; Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Robert Vathier.

France 1931 125m Subtitled.
ISBN 1-55881-260-1
$29.95

FANNY

The second installment in the trilogy shifts from serio-comedy to tragedy; Fanny is alone, pregnant and struggling to survive. In order to make her unborn child "legitimate", she accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy elderly widower. But Marius soon returns and his father persuades him to renounce any claim on the child.

Director; Marc Allegret Script; Marcel Pagnol. Photo; Nicolas Toporkoff. Music Vincent Scotto. Cast; Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Robert Vattier

France 1932 128m Subtitled
ISBN: 1-55881-261-X
$29.95

CEASAR

In the conclusion of the trilogy, Fanny’s husband dies and she reveals to her grown son that marius is his real father and maneuvering gets underway to reunite the two lovers.

Direction and script; Marcel Pagnol. Photo; Willy. Music; Vincent Scotto. Cast; Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Charpin & Crane Demazis.

France 1936 117m Subtitled
ISBN: 1-55881-262-8
$29.95

CLASSIC FRENCH CINEMA
RENOIR
TATI
CARNE
CLAIR
BRESSON
~ OPHULS
~ COCTEAU
PAGNOL
} ~ CLOUZOT
~ VIGO
FRENCH LOVERS

FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA
GODARD
~ RESNAIS
~ CHABROL
FRENCH GANGSTERS & SPIES

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