Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette
TMDB 7.7
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.
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Jean de Florette
TMDB 7.7
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.
Drama
Trailers & More
Jean de Florette
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.
- Directors
- Claude Berri
- Studios
- DD Productions, Films A2, Renn Productions
- Cast and Characters
- 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)
- Languages
- Italian, French