Jean de Florette
“For some men, land and water are more precious than flesh and blood.”
7.7
1986
2h 1m
Drama
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.
Key Crew
Director
Claude Berri
Writers
Claude Berri
Gérard Brach
Cinematography
Bruno Nuytten
Music
Jean-Claude Petit
Cast (22)
Yves Montand
César Soubeyran, aka 'le Papet'
Gérard Depardieu
Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
