Film · Drama
Jean de Florette (1986)
For some men, land and water are more precious than flesh and blood.
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.
- Director
- Claude Berri
- Writers
- Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gérard Brach
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- August 27, 1986
Jean de Florette was released on August 27, 1986. Where to watch in United States: Criterion Channel (subscription).
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Jean de Florette cast
Yves MontandCésar Soubeyran, aka 'le Papet'
Gérard DepardieuJean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
Daniel AuteuilUgolin Soubeyran, nephew of Papet
Elisabeth DepardieuAimée Cadoret, wife of Jean
Margarita LozanoBaptistine, Piedmontese of the cave
Ernestine MazurownaManon Cadoret, daughter of Jean & Aimée
Armand MeffrePhiloxène, mayor
André DuponPamphile, joiner
Pierre NougaroCasimir
Jean MaurelAnglade, believer
Roger SouzaAnge, hydrant man
Didier PainEliacin
Pierre-Jean RippertPascal, hydrant man
Marc BettonMartial- Clément CalMéderic, bar boss
- Benedetto BertinoGiuseppe
Marcel ChampelPique-Bouffigue
Chantal LiennelAmandine, César Soubeyran's servant
FransinedFlorist
Marcel BerbertNotary
