Summary
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.
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Cast
Yves Montand
César Soubeyran, dit 'le Papet'
Gérard Depardieu
Jean Cadoret, le bossu, fils de Florette
Daniel Auteuil
Ugolin Soubeyran, neveu du Papet
Elisabeth Depardieu
Aimée Cadoret, épouse de Jean
Margarita Lozano
Baptistine, la piémontaise de la grotte
Ernestine Mazurowna
Manon Cadoret, fille de Jean & Aimée
André Dupon
Pamphile, le menuisier
Pierre Nougaro
Casimir
Jean Maurel
Anglade, le croyant
Roger Souza
Ange, le fontainier
Didier Pain
Eliacin
Pierre-Jean Rippert
Pascal, le fontainier
Marc Betton
Martial
Chantal Liennel
Amandine, la servante de César Soubeyran
Fransined
Le fleuriste