Philippe Caubère

At the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in Aubagne in the Provence countryside. His mother, Augustine, is a dressmaker, his father Joseph a teacher. When Marcel is only three, Joseph and Augustine move to Saint-Loup, in the suburbs of Marseilles. As the years go by and young Marcel begins to grow up, his family expands to include a little brother and a baby sister, and his father receives a promotion to a permanent teaching position in Marseilles! One summer, his father decides that they should spend their holiday in the hills of Provence at a villa which he has rented with Jules, who is married to Augustine's sister Rose. While there, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.

Longing to return to the hills he grew to love, 11-year-old Marcel finds happiness again when his father is provided access to a footpath they can use to travel from Marseilles to Provence. Years later, Marcel purchases a castle and realizes it is the same estate his mother was terrified to cross along their journey. Based on the memoirs of French novelist, playwright and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

Claude Corti, a fifty-year-old gangster with psychopathic tendencies, is reigning over the Parisian milieu. He proposes an important deal to Hicham and Larbi, who were having a good time celebrating the latter's release from prison. Corti also wants Franck, a hitman who works with his friend Jean-Guy, to join his gang. But Franck wants to remain independent...