Directed by:
Marcel PagnolScreenplay:
Marcel PagnolCinematography:
Georges BenoîtComposer:
Vincent ScottoCast:
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Charles Blavette, Alida Rouffe, Charles Moulin, Édouard Delmont, Robert Bassac, Robert Vattier, Maximilienne, Fernand Charpin (more)Plots(1)
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 entire 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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Raimu
France
Best movies:
The Baker's Wife (1938)
Ginette Leclerc
France
Best movies:
Le Corbeau (1943)
Big Deal (1973)
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Charles Blavette
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Picnic on the Grass (1959)
The Magnificent Tramp (1959)
Alida Rouffe
France
Best movies:
The Baker's Wife (1938)
Charles Moulin
France
Best movies:
The Confession (1970)
Circus Angel (1965)
Napoleon (1955)
Édouard Delmont
France
Best movies:
L'Appel du destin (1953)
The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
Port of Shadows (1938)
Robert Bassac
France
Best movies:
The Baker's Wife (1938)
Robert Vattier
France
Best movies:
The President (1961)
La Putain respectueuse (1952)
Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958)
Maximilienne
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Liliom (1934)
Freedom for Us (1931)
Fernand Charpin
France
Best movies:
Pépé le Moko (1937)
The Baker's Wife (1938)
Marcel Maupi
France
Best movies:
Bad Seed (1934)
Croisières sidérales (1942)
The Baker's Wife (1938)
Julien Maffre
France
Best movies:
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Les Misérables (1958)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Ernst Ronnecker
German Empire
Best movies:
The Baker's Wife (1938)
Günther Tabor
Austria
Best movies:
Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse (1966) (TV movie)
Carnapping (1980)
The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)
Arthur Binder
German Empire
Best movies:
Room 13 (1964)
The Monster of Blackwood Castle (1968)
Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964)