Yves Montand
Cesar Soubeyran/'Le Papet'
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Jean de Florette (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də flɔʁɛt]) is a 1986 period drama film directed by Claude Berri. It was followed by Manon des sources, released the same year. Both are the adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s 1963 two-part novel The Water of the Hills.
- 120 million Franc ($17 million)
- Pierre Grunstein, Alain Poiré
Aug 28, 1987 · Jean de Florette: Directed by Claude Berri. With Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu. A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
- Claude Berri
- 120
- 1 min
Summaries. A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell. 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 ...
Jean de Florette. In this acclaimed French drama, the enterprising Ugolin Soubeyran (Daniel Auteuil) returns to his native countryside after the serving in the military. Intent on growing ...
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- Claude Berri
- PG
- Yves Montand
It's the story of how two provincial French farmers systematically destroy the happiness of a man who comes out from the city to till the land. The man from the city is Jean de Florette, a hunchback tax collector played by Gerard Depardieu, that most dependable of French actors.
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Plot summary. Jean de Florette is the story of ‘le bossu’, a hunchbacked former clerk in a tax office who inherits a farm in the hills above the fictional village of La Bastide in Provence and, together with his wife and young daughter, dreams of making his fortune by raising rabbits.
Directed by Claude Berri • 1986 • France. Starring Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil. Based on a novel by the legendary Marcel Pagnol, JEAN DE FLORETTE is (alongside MANON OF THE SPRING) the first installment in a rich, engrossing epic of greed and deception set amid the bucolic splendor of the Provence countryside.
