Harvest (1937 film)

Harvest

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Produced by Marcel Pagnol
Screenplay by Marcel Pagnol
Based on Second Harvest by Jean Giono
Starring Fernandel
Orane Demazis
Marguerite Moreno
Gabriel Gabrio
Music by Arthur Honegger
Cinematography Willy Faktorovitch
Roger Ledru
Pierre Arnaudy
Henri Darriès
Edited by Suzanne de Troye
Production
company
Les Films Marcel Pagnol
Distributed by Compagnie méditerranéenne de films
Release dates
  • 29 October 1937 (1937-10-29)
Running time
 150 minutes
Country France
Language French

Harvest (French: Regain) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno and Gabriel Gabrio. The narrative revolves a farming village where only three inhabitants remain, but they are told that if only one of them, Panturle, manages to find a wife, the village will be able to prosper again. The film is based on the 1930 novel Second Harvest by Jean Giono. It was released in France on 28 October 1937 and in the United States on 2 October 1939.

Cast

Reception

Frank Nugent of The New York Times described Harvest as "a film of utter serenity and great goodness, so reverently played and so compassionately directed that it is far less an entertainment work than it is a testament to the dignity of man and to his consonance with the spinning of the spheres. Such faults as it possesses are mechanical; uneven editing, particularly in the early scenes; skimping of a few sequences that might have received more attention; attenuation of others that could have been cut. The flaws are obvious enough, yet they should not count too seriously aaginst the work as a whole and still less seriously when one appreciates that the editing was on this side of the water (for space and time requirements) and cannot properly be held against Marcel Pagnol, its director, producer and adapter."[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nugent, Frank S. (1939-10-03). "'Harvest,' Jean Giono's Pastoral of Provence, Opens at the World After Reversal of Censor Ban". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
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