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Jean de Florette (1986)
Directed by Claude Berri
“For some men, land and water are more precious than flesh and blood.”
Drama · 2h 02m
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
Cast
Yves Montand
César Soubeyran, aka 'le Papet'
Gérard Depardieu
Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
Daniel Auteuil
Ugolin Soubeyran, nephew of Papet
Elisabeth Depardieu
Aimée Cadoret, wife of Jean
Margarita Lozano
Baptistine, Piedmontese of the cave
Ernestine Mazurowna
Manon Cadoret, daughter of Jean & Aimée
Armand Meffre
Philoxène, mayor
André Dupon
Pamphile, joiner
Pierre Nougaro
Casimir
Jean Maurel
Anglade, believer
Roger Souza
Ange, hydrant man
Didier Pain
Eliacin
Crew
- Director
- Claude Berri
- Screenplay
- Claude Berri, Gérard Brach
- Novel
- Marcel Pagnol
- Director of Photography
- Bruno Nuytten
- Original Music Composer
- Jean-Claude Petit
- Editor
- Noëlle Boisson, Sophie Coussein, Jeanne Kef, Corinne Lazare, Catherine Serris, Arlette Langmann, Hervé de Luze
Details
- Release date
- 1986-08-27
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Italian, French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- DD Productions, Films A2, Renn Productions, Antenne 2
- Budget
- $4,940,939