Jean de Florette

IMDb 7.7 1986 • 121 min • Drama

Director

Claude Berri

Country

FR

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Yves Montand
Yves Montand César Soubeyran, aka 'le Papet'
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
Daniel Auteuil
Daniel Auteuil Ugolin Soubeyran, nephew of Papet
Elisabeth Depardieu
Elisabeth Depardieu Aimée Cadoret, wife of Jean
Margarita Lozano
Margarita Lozano Baptistine, Piedmontese of the cave