the Woman of the baker is a Film French carried out by Marcel Pagnol, left on the screens in 1938.

Synopsis

In a village of high Provence, a Boulanger recently installed discovers one morning that its young woman left with a shepherd. It decides to strike of the bread as long as his wife did not return. The village is mobilized to be able to find its boulange.

Data sheet

• Realizer: Marcel Pagnol

• Scenario and dialogs: Marcel Pagnol (according to an extract of Jean Blue of Jean Giono)
• Production: the Films Marcel Pagnol
• Music: Vincent Scotto
• Photography: Georges Benoit
• Film French
• Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - 35 mm
• Coming out date: September 7th 1938
• Lasted: 130 minutes (2h10)
• Kind: melodrama

Distribution

• Raimu : Pleasant Castanier, the baker

• Ginette Leclerc: Aurélie, the woman of the baker
• Charles Moulin: Dominique, the shepherd
• Fernand Charpin: the marquis Castan de Venelles
• Robert Vattier: the priest
• Alida Rouffe: Celestial, the good one of the priest
• Maximillienne: Miss Angèle
• Robert Bassac: the teacher
• Edouard Delmont: Maillefer
• Charles Blavette: Antonin
• Odette Roger
• Paul Dullac
• Julien Maffre
• Marcel Maupi
• Jean Castan
• Charblay

Around film

Raimu interprets there a baker all southernmost colors. The final scene where he addresses himself to Pomponnette, its unsteady she-cat, instead of his wife at her sides, belongs to the anthology of the cinema.

History of the text

Marcel Pagnol had written to a historiette intended for the cinema under the title the Baker Amable . Amable is a baker addicted to drink saved of the forfeiture by the love of a maidservant of inn which becomes its baker.

This account was to become a film, but Pagnol lute a news of Jean Giono, the Woman of the baker , and decided to rather turn the history of this “poor fellow inhabited by a great love and which did not make any more bread because his wife had left”. It is the famous film of 1938, with Raimu in the role titrates, which made the admiration of Orson Welles.

The scenario is rather different from the violent account that Giono will insert in Jean Blue . The shepherds of Giono are proud males and savages who dance around large blazing infernos; the villagers come to the fists; the marquis is a mysterious lord accompanied by sensual creatures.

Pagnol had already adapted three works of Giono: Jofroi of Maussan gave the film Jofroy in 1933, One of Baumugnes became Angèle in 1934 and Regain was carried to the screen under this same name in 1937. the Woman of the baker is thus the last film of the “Giono period”.

In 1943, Giono, in squabble with Pagnol, adapts its news for the theater. The baker, given up by his wife, tries at the beginning to be made pass for dead so “erasing the life” and it benefits from it to say its four truths to all the village.

After the Second world war, Pagnol adapts its own film for the scene and a troop of young actors gave a single representation of it. In 1985, its part is taken again by Jerome Savary with Michel Galabru in the role of the baker. In 1998, a new version of film of Pagnol is turned for television by Nicolas Ribowski with Roger Hanin.

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