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THE MAGNIFICENT LIFE OF MARCEL PAGNOL

MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL

By Sylvain CHOMET

ELLE DRIVER - as SALES All rights

Biography - Post-Production 2025

The new masterpiece from visionary and 4-Time Academy Award® Nominee director Sylvain Chomet. A tribute to the master of movie-making Marcel Pagnol, one of the most prolific artists who ever lived, spanning from the birth and rise of Cinema to the end of WWII.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Biography, Animation
- Countries
- FRANCE, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Director(s)
- Sylvain CHOMET
- Producer(s)
- Valérie PUECH (WHAT THE PROD), Ashargin POIRÉ (WHAT THE PROD), Aton SOUMACHE (ONYX FILMS), Lilian ECHE (BIDIBUL PRODUCTIONS), Anton ROEBBEN (WALKING THE DOG), Eric GOOSSENS (WALKING THE DOG)
- Synopsis
- In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editoring chief of ELLE Magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol’s childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing.
  
  Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results of his last two plays, Pagnol starts doubting his ability to pursue his work. That is until Little Marcel – the young boy he used to be – appears to him as if by magic. Together, they will explore Marcel Pagnol’s incredible life, his successes and failures, his joys and sorrows.
  
  The journey of an artist, from a young teacher in Provence to a true pioneer of talking movies. An exceptional inventor who built his own film studios and held out through WWII. A self made man who never betrayed his free spirit or independence, even less his values and origins. A simple man and a bon vivant above all!