Jean de Florette Blu Ray

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The first of two parts of the classic Marcel Pagnol story set in southeast France in the mid
1920s. In a small provencal village, where water is scarce and the earth dry, only one piece
of property possesses an underground spring to irrigate the soil--and the wily, greedy Cèsar
(Yves Montand) will do anything to get hold of it. His dreams seem on the verge of coming
true when the owner (with a little help from Cèsar) dies unexpectedly. But then Jean
Cadoret (Gerard Depardieu), an outsider who inherits the farm, arrives with the intention of
settling down and cultivating the land with his good-hearted wife Aimee (played by
Depardieu's real wife, Elisabeth Depardieu) and young daughter Manon (Ernestine
Mazurowna). Jean, a hunchback and sensitive dreamer, glories in his new life while Cèsar
and his nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) secretly decide to stop up the spring so his plans will
fail. The good-hearted Jean, too naive to imagine that anyone would sabotage him,
struggles fruitlessly to make his garden bloom. His continual failure erodes his spirit, setting
the stage for a tragedy with consequences for all.