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Exhibition: Marcel Pagnol, the time of the museum

3/7/2022, 3:45:41 PM


REPORT - While the writer and filmmaker has made Marseille shine around the world, on the spot his memory is not honored. In 2024 or 2025, Allauch will house a collection of family objects in a place dedicated to it. Investigation of a project developed in a minefield.

Special correspondent in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)

With 34 days to go before the first round of the presidential election, the elected officials, so attached to their Provençal roots, had to be present at this evening.

"In the South, Marcel Pagnol goes beyond all political divisions

," says Jean-Marc Coppola, cultural assistant in Marseille, ahead of Violette, Victor and Aurélien, three of Pagnol's great-grandchildren.

This February 25, the Château de la Buzine, in the east of Marseille, is organizing the opening of a very successful exhibition, devoted to the film career of Marcel Pagnol (1).

Manuscripts, reels of

Manon des sources

, unpublished posters signed Dubout, photos of filming by

Angèle…

There are many never seen and rare pieces.

While

La Valse d'Augustine

, by Vladimir Cosma, composed for

Le Château de ma mère

, by Yves Robert resounds, Raimu's granddaughters, Isabelle Nohain and Laurence Brun, rediscover, moved, Adieu à Raimu,

written by Pagnol and read at the funeral…

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