Harvest

Harvest

Release Date: 1937-10-28

Overview: In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other - fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?

Rating: 6.8 / 10

Cast

Fernandel

Fernandel

as Urbain Gedemus

Robert Le Vigan

Robert Le Vigan

as Sergeant De Sault

Marguerite Moreno

Marguerite Moreno

as Zia Mameche

Gabriel Gabrio

Gabriel Gabrio

as Panturle, le paysan d'Aubignane

Orane Demazis

Orane Demazis

as Mlle Irène alias « Arsule », la compagne d'Urbain

Crew

  • Marcel Pagnol - Director

  • Willy Faktorovitch - Director of Photography

  • Jean Giono - Writer

  • Suzanne de Troeye - Editor

  • Marcel Pagnol - Producer

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