The Baker’s Wife – Restored version of the 1938 film

Amiable Castanier, the new baker from the village of Sainte-Cécile, in Provence, has no equal when it comes to making good bread. His young wife Aurélie runs the cash register. Beautiful and always silent, she is clearly bored with a husband who is too old and too few clients. One day, she lets herself be seduced by a comely young man, named Dominique, the shepherd of the Marquis Castan de Venelles. Unable to stand it any longer, she ran away one night with him. The baker’s misfortune initially amuses the village, which makes a fuss over it. But Aimable, desperate, gets drunk and wants to hang himself. As a result, residents are worried. Are they going to be permanently deprived of good bread? Adaptation of an episode from the novel “Jean le Bleu” by Jean Giono.