Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette

120 mins | Drama | Aug. 27, 1986

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.

Jean de Florette

120 mins | Drama | Aug. 27, 1986

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.
IMDb rating 8.1
Producers Renn Productions, Films A2, Télévision Suisse-Romande, DD Productions, RAI, AMLF
Original title Jean de Florette
Directors Hélène Sébillotte, Xavier Castano, Claude Berri
Writers Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gérard Brach

Cast

Yves Montand

as César Soubeyran, le Papet

Gérard Depardieu

as Jean Cadoret, le bossu, fils de Florette

Daniel Auteuil

as Ugolin Soubeyran, neveu du Papet

Elisabeth Depardieu

as Aimée Cadoret, épouse de Jean

Margarita Lozano

as Baptistine, la piémontaise de la grotte

Ernestine Mazurowna

as Manon Cadoret, fille de Jean & Aimée

Armand Meffre

as Philoxène, le maire

André Dupon

as Pamphile, le menuisier

Pierre Nougaro

as Casimir

Jean Maurel

as Anglade, le croyant

Roger Souza

as Ange, le fontainier

Didier Pain

as Eliacin

Marc Betton

as Martial

Clément Cal

as Méderic, le patron du bar

Benedetto Bertino

as Giuseppe

Marcel Champel

as Pique-Bouffigue

Chantal Liennel

as Amandine, la servante

Fransined

as le fleuriste

Marcel Berbert

as le notaire

Christian Tamisier

as le docteur

Jo Doumerg

as le muletier