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César

  • 1936
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 48m
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César (1936)
Drama

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring... Read allHonoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César,... Read allHonoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he... Read all

  • Director
    • Marcel Pagnol
  • Writer
    • Marcel Pagnol
  • Stars
    • Raimu
    • Pierre Fresnay
    • Orane Demazis
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    7.6/10
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    • Director
      • Marcel Pagnol
    • Writer
      • Marcel Pagnol
    • Stars
      • Raimu
      • Pierre Fresnay
      • Orane Demazis
    • 12User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    César (1936)
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    Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, and André Fouché in César (1936)
    Raimu in César (1936)
    Orane Demazis and Pierre Fresnay in César (1936)
    Orane Demazis, André Fouché, Pierre Fresnay, and Raimu in César (1936)
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    Orane Demazis in César (1936)
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    Raimu
    Raimu
    • César Ollivier
    Pierre Fresnay
    Pierre Fresnay
    • Marius Ollivier
    Orane Demazis
    Orane Demazis
    • Fanny Panisse
    Fernand Charpin
    Fernand Charpin
    • Honoré Panisse
    • (as Charpin)
    Paul Dullac
    Paul Dullac
    • Félix Escartefigue
    Robert Vattier
    Robert Vattier
    • Aldebert Brun
    Marcel Maupi
    • Innocent Mangiapan
    • (as Maupi)
    Édouard Delmont
    Édouard Delmont
    • Le docteur Félicien Venelle
    • (as Edouard Delmont)
    Milly Mathis
    • Tante Claudine Foulon
    Thommeray
    • Elzéar Bonnegrâce - le curé de Saint Victor
    Jean Castan
    • L'enfant de choeur
    Robert Bassac
    • Pierre Dromard
    • (as Bassac)
    Alida Rouffe
    Alida Rouffe
    • Honorine Cabanis
    Rellys
    Rellys
    • L'employé de Panisse
    Charblay
    • Henri - le patron du bar de Toulon
    Albert Spanna
    • Le facteur
    Odette Roger
    • La servante de l'hôtel
    Doumel
    • Fernand - l'associé de Marius
    • Director
      • Marcel Pagnol
    • Writer
      • Marcel Pagnol
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    • Trivia
      Odette Roger is credited in the opening credits as "la bonne de l'hotel" (the hotel maid) but does not appear in the film. The hotel sequence was cut out of the final print.
    • Quotes

      Honoré Panisse: One can't live without doing wrong.

    • Connections
      Featured in Les sentiers Marcel Pagnol. Les chemins d'une vie (2005)

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    10/10
    Marseilles la vielle
    Having had the good fortune to live a portion of my life in Marseilles, I still get a frisson of nostalgia for the city every time I see the films in this trilogy. The way of life in Marseille has obviously modernised over the 7 decades since they were filmed, but the underlying generosity of spirit and joie de vivre is still there. Marseilles is to Provence and its bourgeois pretensions as London is to its satellite and suburbs: squalid, frenetic and crime-ridden, but nonetheless magnetic. The people of Marseilles still possess the same uniqueness of character that they did back then. A mixture of Italian, Corsican, Maghrebin and French, blended in a huge and historically important trading port. The largest Foreign Legion barracks was (and I believe, still is) in Marseille, ready to be unleashed on the subjects of the French African colonies at a moment's notice.

    The port is still (albeit much less so) a smuggler's paradise, and the social life of the city is still centred around good food, good love, and strong drink. Pagnol and Raimu knew the city well, and gave it the starring role in the trilogy. Imagine their joy at being able to relocate a stage play to the Mediterranean coast and use genuine atmospheric exteriors of the old port in all its pre-war glory. The city, and particularly the docks, took a real beating from both sides in WW2, so Pagnol not only created a few masterpieces of cinema, but also an invaluable document of a lost architecture and layout.

    The nonsense between L'Academie and Pagnol was related to the prevailing Parisian view of southerners as being crude, unsophisticated people who lived a simple life of manual labour, procreation, drinking and eating (cul terreux). The view from the south that still prevails, is one of a Paris riddled with snobbish elites (peigne cul) totally divorced from the realities of healthy living . The wonderful climate and diet of the Mediterranean coast has long been a source of envy for those condemned by fate to dwell in the damp root vegetable fogs of northern France. Pagnol was gleefully rubbing their noses in it.

    Pagnol opened up a lot of avenues in film, but the people of Marseilles remember him mostly for his authentic capturing of la vie quotidienne. I'll drink to that.
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    • May 1, 2006

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    • Release date
      • October 27, 1948 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Сезар
    • Filming locations
      • Quai de Rive Neuve, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
    • Production company
      • Les Films Marcel Pagnol
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $8,262
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,720
      • Jan 8, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,262
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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