Jean de Florette
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Jean de Florette is a novel by Marcel Pagnol, published in 1966. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed and commercially successful 1986 French language motion picture.
Movie
Nominated for eight César Awards, the film has been selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made." The book's sequel, Manon Des Sources, was simultaneously filmed with almost equal success.
Plot
The action 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 farm whose owner they accidentally killed. 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, the hunchback, his wife and daughter are reduced to poverty and desperation by the lack of water. 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, sees that the Soubeyrans are responsible. In the sequel, she obtains her revenge.Primary cast
- Yves Montand - Cesar Soubeyran/'Le Papet'
- Gérard Depardieu - Jean de Florette
- Daniel Auteuil - Ugolin
- Elisabeth Depardieu - Aimee Cadoret
- Margarita Lozano - Baptistine
- Ernestine Mazurowna - Manon Cadoret
Awards
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 Screenply – Claude Berri & Gérard Brach
- 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
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