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The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provençal countryside he knew intimately, Pagnol draws a vivid portrait of a close-knit village where the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker (the inimitable Raimu, praised by no less than Orson Welles as “the greatest actor who ever lived”) snowball into a scandal that engulfs the town. Marrying the director’s abiding concern for the experiences of ordinary people with an understated but superbly judged visual style, The Baker’s Wife is at once wonderfully droll and piercingly perceptive in its depiction of the complexities of human relationships.
Original Release
09/07/1938
US Release
02/26/1940
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Raimu | Aimable Castanier |
Ginette Leclerc | Aurélie Castanier |
Fernand Charpin | Le marquis Castan de Venelles / The Marquis Castan de Venelles |
Robert Vattier | Le curé / the priest |
Charles Blavette | Antonin |
Robert Bassac | L'instituteur / the teacher |
Marcel Maupi | Barnabé |
Alida Rouffe | Céleste, la bonne du curé / Céleste, the good priest |
Odette Roger | Miette, la femme d'Antonin / Miette, wife of Antoninus |
Yvette Fournier | Hermine |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Raimu | Aimable Castanier |
Ginette Leclerc | Aurélie Castanier |
Fernand Charpin | Le marquis Castan de Venelles / The Marquis Castan de Venelles |
Robert Vattier | Le curé / the priest |
Charles Blavette | Antonin |
Robert Bassac | L'instituteur / the teacher |
Marcel Maupi | Barnabé |
Alida Rouffe | Céleste, la bonne du curé / Céleste, the good priest |
Odette Roger | Miette, la femme d'Antonin / Miette, wife of Antoninus |
Yvette Fournier | Hermine |
Maximilienne | Melle Angèle |
Charblay | Arsène, le boucher / Arsène, the butcher |
Julien Maffre | Pétugue |
Adrien Legros | Barthelemy |
Jean Castan | Esprit, un berger / Esprit, a shepherd |
Marius Roux | Un messager / A messenger |
Tyrand | Un messager / A messenger |
Gustave Merle | Le Papet |
Paul Dullac | Casimir, le buraliste / Casimir, the tobacconist |
Charles Moulin | Dominique, le berger |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Charles Pons | Executive Producer |
Marcel Pagnol | Producer |