Jean de Florette

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Movie Facts

Part of the: L'Eau des collines

Status: Released

Runtime: 120

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: fr

Webpage: -

Release Info

1986-08-27
U
1986-08-27
PG
1987-06-17
PG
1988-01-01
e 12
1988-04-29
M/12

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Alternative Titles

Jean Florette
El manantial de las colinas
Kilden i Provence

Content Score: 100

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, so are dismayed to hear 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