Special Features

New 4k digital restoration of all three films, with uncompressed manaural soundtracks; New introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier; New interview with Nicolas Pagnol, grandson of Writer-Director Marcel Pagnol; Segments from Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux Choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol's life and work; Marseille, a short 1935 documentary about the Marseille harbor produced by Pagnol; Archival interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier; Pagnol's Poetic Realism, a new video essay by scholar Brett Bowles; French television clip from 2015 about the restoration of the trilogy; Theatrical rarerelease trailer; New English Subtitle translations; Plus: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol's introductions to his plays and screenplays