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My Father's Glory (French: La Gloire de mon père) is an autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol.

It is also a 1990 film based on the novel, and directed by Yves Robert. Its sequel is My Mother's Castle.

Plot

Young Marcel was born in the country but raised in Marseille. His father, Joseph, is a hard-working strongly atheist public school teacher in Marseilles. Marcel's Aunt Rose marries the round, jovial, and very religious Uncle Jules. Joseph and Uncle Jules come into conflict over religion. Over summer break, Joseph and Jules decide to take their respective families to a house in the country. On this trip, Marcel makes a new friend in wilderness-wise Lili. Jules decides to educate Joseph on hunting. Marcel wants to come hunting with them, but the two adults lie to him and leave the house while he is still just waking up. He follows them stealthily. Jules is making a fool out of Joseph with his hunting prowess. This enrages Marcel. He later gets lost in the wilderness. Hearing the hunters later, he follows the sounds to the top of a high cliff. His presence there scares out the legendary birds, the Bartavelles. Joseph shoots two down with his side-by-side loading musket. Jules does not believe that Joseph has made the kill. Marcel retrieves the birds and holds them by the legs in his outspread arms on the cliff for the sight of the hunters in the valley below. He "lifts his father's glory to the sky." Back in the village, the residents are amazed at Joseph's skill. Marcel is very proud of him, but realizes his father's vanity when Joseph poses for a photograph with the birds. Earlier, Joseph had mocked a colleague who posed with fish, calling such poses a lack of dignity. When the summer ends, Marcel is unwilling to return home and leaves a note to his family saying he's planning to stay. Lili gives him a place to stay, but he realizes that he can't make it on his own. He then returns home to make sure his parents hadn't seen the letter. Before he goes upstairs, his parents give references to the letter to him, but they never said directly that they saw it. After a talk with his parents, Marcel goes upstairs and finds the letter where he left it. After that, his family packs up and returns home. The story is continued in the sequel, My Mother's Castle.

Cast

Philippe Caubère
Joseph
Nathalie Roussel
Augustine
Didier Pain Uncle Jules
Julien Ciamaca Marcel
Thérèse Liotard Aunt Rose
Joris Molinas Lili des Bellons
Victorien Delamare Paul
Paul Crauchet Edmond des Papillons
Benoît Martin younger Marcel
Pierre Maguelon François
Michel Modo mailman
Jean-Pierre Darras Narrator (voice)
Victor Garrivier priest

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