Jofroi

6.5
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Run time: 48 min
  • Premiere: 1934. February 16.

Jofroi sells his orchard to Alphonse. Alphonse wants to use the land for crops, so he starts to cut down the trees. Jofroi is furious: how can someone cut down those trees? He threatens to commit suicide so that the small town will blame Alphonse and Alphonse’s life will be miserable. Alphonse, the curate, the teacher, and some of the townsfolk spend the rest of the movie trying to keep Jofroi from committing suicide…

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Camera

Willy Faktorovitch

Director of Photography

Directing

Marcel Pagnol

Director

Editing

Writing

Marcel Pagnol

Screenplay