Paul Dullac

Desiring to give his compatriots a taste for laughter, a comic Marseilles founds a club with friends whose joke is the reason for living and tries to breathe new life into the sleeping city.

They are three fishermen from the Old Port: Toinet, Pénible and Girelle. Two of them are in love with two pretty merchants. Not confident in their natural seduction, they decide to use drastic measures to be sure to attract and sustain the attention of these young ladies. This is how they approach them by posing as wealthy industrialists. But now the young girls, not to be outdone, present themselves as film actresses.

프로방스의 작은 마을에 사는 중년의 제빵사 에마블레 카스타니에에 관한 영화. 젊은 아내 오렐리(지네트 레클레르)가 그를 버리고 젊고 잘생긴 목동을 따라 떠나버리자 슬픔에 빠진 제빵사는 빵 만드는 일을 그만둔다. 그러자 마을 전체가 제대로 돌아가지 않는다. 카톨릭 신부와 좌익 성향의 교사, 영주를 비롯한 모든 마을 사람들이 서로 갈등하던 과거를 잊고 제빵사의 아내를 다시 데려오기 위해 힘을 모으는데..

인민전선 하에서 노동총연맹의 의뢰로 만들어진 작품. 프랑스 혁명 당시 500명의 지원병으로 구성된 마르세이유 군대가 마르세이유에서 파리까지 이동하는 과정을 그리고 있다. 중심적인 주인공 없이, 지원병, 왕족, 귀족, 군대, 프랑스 국민을 대표하는 인물들이 등장하여 각기 고귀하고 인간적인 모습을 보여준다. 르누아르는 이 영화가 자신에게 인민전선의 의기양양한 기운을 호흡하게 해 주었으며, 프랑스인들이 다시 태어난 것 같은 느낌을 가졌다고 말했다. 프린트가 유실되었다가 모스크바에서 온전한 필름을 찾음으로써 가까스로 복원될 수 있었던 각별한 사연을 가진 작품

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Césariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Césariot's godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad's mother. Dissembling that he's off to see a friend, Césariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Césariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Césariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.

A girl, Marie, who got engaged to a boy who is leaving for military training (thirteen days) wins two million on the raffle, thanks to an older man, Claude, whom she calls her good luck …

Misfortunes and disarray of the little clown Leroy who is upstaged by a comrade, Bertini, and sees himself abandoned by his girlfriend Ginette, preferring his collaborator to him.

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles just outside the bar; and various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.