Jean de Florette (1986)
Starring Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Directed by Claude Berri
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.
Runtime: 120 min.
Rating: 7.7
DVD
Languages: French,Italiano
Countries: France
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Keywords: based on novel or book,provence,avarice,battle for power,source,neighbor,spring (water)
Cast
César Soubeyran, le Papet
Jean Cadoret, le bossu, fils de Florette
Ugolin Soubeyran, neveu du Papet
Aimée Cadoret, épouse de Jean
Baptistine, la piémontaise de la grotte
Manon Cadoret, fille de Jean & Aimée
Philoxène, le maire
Pamphile, le menuisier
Casimir
Anglade, le croyant
Ange, le fontainier
Eliacin
Pascal
Martial
Méderic, le patron du bar
Giuseppe
Pique-Bouffigue
Amandine, la servante
le fleuriste
le notaire
le docteur
le muletier