Word: marius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen years have passed; little Cesariot is now old enough to become a soldier, and Panisse is on his death-bed. That is the way things are as Marcel Pagnol begins "Cesar," the last part of his celebrated French trilogy of the Marsailles waterfront folks. "Marius" and "Fanny," the other two films dealing with the people, were perhaps funnier, for "Cesar" is more concerned with plot and its happy ending...
Learning that Marius is his father and that his grandfather is the saloonkeeper. Cesariot sets out to find Marius in Toulon. Marius eventually returns to Fanny, patches up his quarrel with his father, Cesar, and M. Pagnol'e gentle tale of some rowdy folks peacefully ends...
...plot moons over the rise of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...
Into the heart of the Congo plunge four white men in search of legendary Mt. Nagala. All four men are searching for something: Samuel for a brilliant friend who once started for Nagala and was never heard from again; Marius, the mineralogist, for rare metals; Joshua, the entomologist, for rare insects; Alessandro, the anthropologist, for "secret gods...
...Prokosch character is ever really motivated by goals so easily stated. It is Marius who blows his top one night and rips down the facade of their pretenses: "We've all been lying. Cheating. Masquerading . . . What is it we're really after? . . . One wants peace. Another wants love. A third wants faith. A fourth wants power. It's all very simple. And rather absurd...