Marcel Pagnol's Marseille Trilogy

TOTAL BINGE TIME: 6h 36m

The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline

Marius

Released: 1931 // Runtime: 128m // Rating: 7.4

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 generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.

1931

Fanny

Released: 1932 // Runtime: 127m // Rating: 7.5

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.

1932

César

Released: 1936 // Runtime: 141m // Rating: 7.6

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.

1936