In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other, fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
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Cast

Fernandel
Urbain Gedemus

Robert Le Vigan
Sergeant De Sault

Marguerite Moreno
Zia Mameche

Gabriel Gabrio
Panturle, le paysan d'Aubignane

Orane Demazis
Mlle Irène alias « Arsule », la compagne d'Urbain

Henri Poupon
le fermier ami de Panturle
Odette Roger
Alphonsine

Milly Mathis
Belline

Édouard Delmont
le père Gaubert, forgeron

Charles Blavette
Jasmin Gaubert, le fils

Jean Servais
Albin
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