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Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do. The highest scoring of the 3 titles in its series.
Synopsis
Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
81 audience votes
Key crew
- Marc AllégretDirector
- Marcel PagnolScreenplay
Cast
- Orane DemazisFanny Cabanis Panisse
- RaimuCésar Olivier
- Fernand CharpinHonoré Panisse
- Alida RouffeHonorine Cabanis
- Auguste MourièsFélix Escartefigue, ferry captain
- Marcel MaupiInnocent Mangiapan, ferry crewman
- Robert VattierMonsieur Brun
- Milly MathisClaudine Foulon
- Pierre FresnayMarius Olivier
- Odette RogerFortunette
- Louis BoulleElzear Panisse
- Édouard DelmontDr. Felicien Venelle (uncredited)
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Themes
husband wife relationshipsexual obsessionplatonic lovemoral conflictlovepregnant womanselfishnessolder husbandego in lovetragicomedymaternal lovepregnant without husband