Cineaste, January 1st, 1993
Fanny (Orane Demazis) loves Marius (Pierre Fresnay) and Marius loves Fanny - thought not quite as much as she loves him, nor as much as he loves the sea. So the young sailor takes off on a five year voyage to the Orient, telling his true love to marry the wealthy, older Panisse (Charpin) who's been courting her - unaware as he is that she's pregnant with his, Marius's, child. All this emotional commotion is overseen by the wise, wisecracking widower Cesar (Raimu), Marius's father, and this colorful matrix of characters supplies the laughter and tears and complications and misunderstandings t...
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