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Overview

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Director:

Yves Robert

Writers:

Louis Nucéra (writer)
Marcel Pagnol (novel)
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Release Date:

August 1991 (USA) more

Tagline:

A childhood in Provence.

Plot:

A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father... more | add synopsis

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations more

User Comments:

Exquisite pastoral odyssey more (31 total)


Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:

My Father's Glory
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Runtime:

105 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Company:

Gaumont more


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Goofs:

Anachronisms: At 00:52:30', you can see in the far background behind the actors (on the left side of the screen) two white cars driving fast. Very fast for the beginning of the 20th century! more

Quotes:

Augustine: You need your gun to go shopping?
Joseph Pagnol: You never know.
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Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#34.6)" (2005) more


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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Exquisite pastoral odyssey, 1 January 2005
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Author: fertilecelluloid from Mountains of Madness

This beautiful, charming work (and its companion MY MOTHER'S CASTLE) is lifted from the memoirs of filmmaker/screenwriter Marcel Pagnol.

It is a loving, romanticized recreation of Pagnol's childhood trips to the south of France.

Director Yves Robert ices every scene with sweet affection and a seemingly effortless attention to detail.

There are so many moving, heart-tugging scenes.

Describing them all would spoil the confection.

I'll mention one. Young Marcel accompanies his father, Joseph, a school teacher, to school one day. Not believing that Marcel can read already, Joseph writes a simple declaration of his love for Marcel on the blackboard. Marcel then surprises his father by reading out loud what his father wrote. It is such a touching, affecting scene.

MY FATHER'S GLORY is bursting to the seams with such magic.

Vladimir Cosma's score perfectly captures the period and tone of Pagnol's memories.

Simply exquisite.

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