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Jean de Florette
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| Jean de Florette | |
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 Jean de Florette |
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| Directed by | Claude Berri |
| Produced by | Pierre Grunstein Alain Poiré |
| Written by | Claude Berri Gérard Brach |
| Starring | Yves Montand Gérard Depardieu Daniel Auteuil |
| Music by | Jean-Claude Petit |
| Cinematography | Bruno Nuytten |
| Editing by | Noëlle Boisson Sophie Coussein |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures (USA) |
| Release date(s) |  August 27, 1986 26 June 1987 (NYC only) |
| Running time | 120 min. |
| Language | French |
| IMDb profile | |
Jean de Florette is an award-winning 1986 French film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Marcel Pagnol.
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The story takes place in a small village of Provence in the south of France, shortly after the First World War. Cesar Soubeyran and his nephew, Ugolin, are desperate to buy a neighbouring farm, whose owner they accidentally kill. In order to get the farm at a good price, they stop up the natural spring that provides water to the land. The farm is then inherited by Jean, a hunchbacked tax collector whose late mother, Florette, was once Cesar's girlfriend. Although he valiantly tries to reap the harvests of his land, putting his faith in a modern approach to agriculture, the hunchback, his wife and daughter are reduced to poverty and desperation by the lack of water, while Soubeyran and his nephew remain tight-lipped about the situation-saving spring under Jean's land. In the end, Jean is killed in an accident as a result of his attempts to find ways of supplying water to his land. However, his young daughter, Manon, has suspected that the Soubeyrans are responsible. The film ends as she discovers them opening up the water source that could have saved her family.
The sequel film, Manon des Sources, tells the story of how Manon gets her revenge on Cesar.
- Yves Montand - César Soubeyran/'Le Papet'
- Gérard Depardieu - Jean De Florette
- Daniel Auteuil - Ugolin
- Elisabeth Depardieu - Aimée Cadoret
- Margarita Lozano - Baptistine
- Ernestine Mazurowna - Manon Cadoret
Award wins
- BAFTA Award for Best Film
- United States National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- César Award for Best Actor - Daniel Auteuil
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Daniel Auteuil
- BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography - Bruno Nuytten
- BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – Claude Berri & Gérard Brach
Award nominations
- BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- César Award for Best Film – Bruno Nuytten
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor - Yves Montand
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor - Gérard Depardieu
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction - Claude Berri
- César Award for Best Director – Claude Berri
- BAFTA Award for Best Make Up Artist - Michèle Dernelle & Jean-Pierre Eychenne
- BAFTA Award for Best Production Design – Bernard Vézat
- César Award for Best Cinematography – Bruno Nuytten
- César Award for Best Music Written for a Film – Jean-Claude Petit
- César Award for Best Sound – Pierre Gamet, Laurent Quaglio, Dominique Hennequin
- César Award for Best Screenplay - Claude Berri & Gérard Brach
Acclaim
- The film was selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made."
The book's sequel, Manon Des Sources, was filmed simultaneously with Jean de Florette, and released to equal acclaim.
| Preceded by A Room with a View |
BAFTA Award for Best Film 1988 |
Succeeded by The Last Emperor |