Marius (1931 film)

Marius is a 1931 French romantic drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, and Alida Rouffe.

Based on the 1929 play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol, it is the first part of the Marseille Trilogy, which also includes the films Fanny (1932) and César (1936).

He refuses the opportunity, but Fanny, realizing he will not be truly happy staying at home, decides to encourage him to leave by letting him think that she would rather marry Panisse.

As Fanny listens to César talk about how he will rearrange the apartment above the bar for her and Marius to live there, she cannot take it any longer and faints.

In complement came a reading of Pagnol's preface to the play, which was written for the publication of his complete works and was later collected in the 1981 volume Confidences, and of recollections about the production of the film, which were later published as part of the augmented edition of his 1934 essay French: Cinématurgie de Paris.