In 2025, the museum invites you to meet the most universal Provençal filmmaker of the 20th century, and the first to be admitted to the Académie française in 1946.
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130 years ago, one of the greatest playwrights, writers and filmmakers of his time, Marcel Pagnol, was born in Aubagne. Coincidentally, that same year, the LUMIERE brothers presented their new invention, the cinematograph.
Marcel Pagnol is a unique case in the history of cinema. A daring, visionary and creative entrepreneur, he imposed talking pictures. He was the first to manage the entire production chain, from writing to distribution. Marcel Pagnol's cinema was characterized first and...