Drama
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.
Directed by
Claude Berri
Gérard Depardieu
Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette
Yves Montand
César Soubeyran, aka 'le Papet'
Daniel Auteuil
Ugolin Soubeyran, nephew of Papet
Margarita Lozano
Baptistine, Piedmontese of the cave
Elisabeth Depardieu
Aimée Cadoret, wife of Jean
Ernestine Mazurowna
Manon Cadoret, daughter of Jean & Aimée
Didier Pain
Eliacin
Marc Betton
Martial
Toots Thielemans
Roger Souza
Ange, hydrant man
Fransined
Florist
André Dupon
Pamphile, joiner
Marcel Champel
Pique-Bouffigue
Armand Meffre
Philoxène, mayor
Pierre Nougaro
Casimir
Jean Maurel
Anglade, believer
Pierre-Jean Rippert
Pascal, hydrant man
Chantal Liennel
Amandine, César Soubeyran's servant
Clément Cal
Méderic, bar boss
Benedetto Bertino
Giuseppe
Christian Tamisier
Doctor
Jo Doumerg
Muleteer

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