Jean Castan

A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alexandre Arnaudy

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the only teacher. Soon a widow, the pretty wife of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

"Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henri Poupon

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

Cigalon (Alexandre Arnaudy) manages a restaurant in a small town in Provence. A chef with a high opinion of his past culinary achievements, he makes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alexandre Arnaudy

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marcel Pagnol