Honore de Marseille

IMDb link: 0049326
IMDb rating: 4.6 (161 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Director: Fernandel, Francis Blanche, Maurice Régamey
Cast: Andrex, Claire Diamant and others

Release date: 5 Dec 1956
Release year: 1956
Runtime: 80 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: marseille france, provence france, roman general, fish vendor, reference to duke of windsor, reference to cyrano de bergerac, reference to don juan, reference to gary cooper, reference to king louis xiv, reference to casanova

Plot:

An ethnologist comes to interview a Marseillais of old stock.These humble cheerful Marseillais have never heard of ethnologists but they pretend they do and Honore begins to tell the story of his dear city :Honorius ,his Roman ancestor ,founded Massilia when he married the Ligure tribe chief's daughter ;then ,later on,in the Pompey/Ceasar rivalry days ,Honoris,another forefather,made the wrong choice,and ,besieged by Julius' armies,he invented the game of Petanque to stave off boredom..

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