Fifty years after his death, the writer and filmmaker remains immanently associated with Marseille. “Marius”, “Fanny” and “César’, remains anchored to the city and to the heart.
More than a cinema classic, the work with legendary dialogues and rare emotional intensity is part of the French heritage. How can we forget the card game and the famous line from Raimu (Caesar): “You break my heart”? The Phocaean city, where it takes place, saw little Marcel grow up. Here again, the filmmaker founded his own film studios in the 1930s – at the beginning of talking cinema. He died in Paris at the age of 79, he rests in the Treille cemetery, a “village” in the 11th arrondissement, still surrounded by scrubland, at the foot of Garlaban. The small neighboring town of Allauch won most of the celebrations this year for the anniversary of the disappearance of the Provencal academician.