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THE MAGNIFICENT LIFE OF MARCEL PAGNOL

MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL

By Sylvain CHOMET

Biography - Pre-Production 2025

4-Time Academy Award ® nominee Sylvain Chomet brings to the screen the life of legendary novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol in a delightfully vintage, burlesque and inventive tale.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Biography, Animation
- Countries
- FRANCE, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Director(s)
- Sylvain CHOMET
- Producer(s)
- Aton SOUMACHE (ONYX FILMS), Ashargin POIRÉ (WHAT THE PROD), Valérie PUECH (WHAT THE PROD), Lilian ECHE (BIDIBUL PRODUCTIONS), Eric GOOSSENS (WALKING THE DOG), Anton ROEBBEN (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!