How to watch the Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy films in order
There are 3 Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy films, about 6.6 hours in total. The first was released in 1931, the latest in 1936. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
The "Marseille Trilogy" is the generic name given to three plays by Marcel Pagnol as well as to their various adaptions.
- 1
Marius (1931)
9 Oct 1931 · 128 min
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his
- 2
Fanny (1932)
27 Oct 1932 · 127 min
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.
- 3
César (1936)
13 Nov 1936 · 141 min
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.