Jean de Florette
The sun-dappled beauty of the Provence countryside belies dark motivations, in the first installment of Claude Berri’s monumental pastoral tragedy. When the naively idealistic tax collector Jean Cadoret (Gérard Depardieu) unexpectedly inherits a family farm, he leaves the city for a new life in the agrarian community where his mother, Florette, grew up—though she moved away decades ago. His neighbors, however, the scheming Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) and his proud uncle César Soubeyran (Yves Montand), have plotted to divert the flow of water away from Jean’s land. Brought to extraordinary life by acting legends Depardieu, Auteuil, and Montand, Jean de Florette draws viewers into a fully realized vision of 1920s rural France in which the culture clash between modern ideas and the rustic older codes of the country takes a heartbreaking turn.
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Cast
- Yves Montand
- César “Le Papet” Soubeyran
- Gérard Depardieu
- Jean de Florette
- Daniel Auteuil
- Ugolin
- Élisabeth Depardieu
- Aimée Cadoret
- Margarita Lozano
- Baptistine
- Ernestine Mazurowna
- Manon Cadoret
Credits
- Director
- Claude Berri
- Written by
- Claude Berri
- Written by
- Gérard Brach
- Based on a novel by
- Marcel Pagnol
- Executive producer
- Pierre Grunstein
- Associate producer
- Alain Poiré
- Original music by
- Jean-Claude Petit
- Non-original music by
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Cinematography by
- Bruno Nuytten
- Film editing by
- Noëlle Boisson
- Film editing by
- Arlette Langmann
- Film editing by
- Hervé de Luze
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