Angèle (1934)

Synopsis

Seduced, then abandoned, Angèle soon finds herself in a brothel in Marseille. Daughter-mother of a little boy, she returns to the village where her father locks her in the cellar of the farm with her illegitimate offspring.

Technical data

• Genre: drama
• Duration: 150 minutes (reduced to 125 minutes)
• Release date: October 26, 1934 in Paris (in September in Marseille)
• Director: Marcel Pagnol
• Screenplay: Marcel Pagnol after the novel Un de Baumugnesby Jean Giono
• Adaptation and dialogue: Marcel Pagnol
• Music : Vincent Scotto
• Musical direction : Georges Sellers
• Artistic Director: Charles Brun
• Photography: Willy Faktorovitch, Charly Willy-Gricha, Roger Ledru Sound: Jean Lecoq, Bardisbanian, recorded on RCA sound truck
• Editing: Suzanne de Troye, André Robert, assisted by Jeannette Ginestet
• Decors: Marius Brouquier, builder of the real house of La Treille
• Set photographer : Roger Corbeau
• Production: Marcel Pagnol
• Production manager: René Pagnol
• Production and distribution companies: Les Films Marcel Pagnol

Distribution

• Fernandel: Saturnin, the farmhand
• Orane Demazis: Angèle Barbaroux, the daughter
• Henri Poupon: Clarius Barbaroux, the farmer, Angèle’s father
• Édouard Delmont: Amédée, a farm worker
• Annie Toinon: Philomène Barbaroux, the farmer, mother of Angèle
• Jean Servais: Albin, the farm worker in love with Angèle
• Andrex: the Louis, pimp
• Charles Blavette: Tonin, the grinder
• Fernand Flament: Jo
• Henri Rellys: a peasant (cut in the editing)
• Darcelys: the tattooed
• Blanche Poupon: Florence
• Marcelle Vial: the little servant of the café-tabac
• Thommeray: a man of knowledge
• Juliette Petit: the Esmenarde
• Delaurme: the bar owner
• Edmond Paul: the man with the white horse