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Les Lettres de mon moulin
1954 Comedy / Drama
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Credits
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Director: Marcel Pagnol
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Script: Marcel Pagnol, based on the short stories by Alphonse Daudet
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Photo: Willy
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Music: Henri Tomasi
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Cast: "Prologue": Henri Crémieux (Me Honarat Grapazzi),
Roger Crouzet (Alphonse Daudet); "Les Trois messes basses": Henri Vilbert (Dom Balaguère),
René Sarvil (Le chef),
Marcel Daxely (Le diable); "L’Elixir du père Gaucher": Robert Vattier (Le père
Abbé),
Guy Alland (Frère Ulysse); "Le Secret de Maître Cornille": Yvonne Gamy (La
vieille),
Henri Arius (M. Decanis),
Pierrette Bruno (Vivette),
Edouard Delmont (Maître Cornille),
Michel Galabru (Baptistin)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 160 min; B&W
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Aka: Letters from My Windmill
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Summary
Alphonse Daudet purchases a windmill in Pampérigouste, an attractive region of
rural France, to write a series of short stories. In the first, "The Three
Low Masses", a priest with a love of food tries to get his clerical duties out of
the way as fast as possible so that he can partake of his Christmas feast. In "The
Elixir of Father Gaucher", a monk manages to rescue his brothers from poverty by distilling
and selling a powerful elixir, but ends up succumbing to its charms himself.
Finally, in "The Secret of Master Cornille", an ageing miller tries to keep up
the illusion that his windmill enables him to earn a living, in spite of the fact that
all the villagers make use of the more efficient steam-driven flour mills.
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