Jean de Florette

Name: Jean de Florette
Director: Claude Berri
Released: 1986
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano

1986 · 121 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 28,267 VOTES · DIR. Claude Berri

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,081 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:03:01 Uncle Papet, it's me... Ugolin!

00:08:24 two hundred almond trees...

00:12:08 - Something's bothering me? - What?

00:14:57 Lousy bastards! Pigs! Thieves!

00:18:51 - Where is she? - In Crespin.

00:21:40 - I'll go see Florette in Crespin. - No, you won't.

00:25:34 but, unfortunately, by God's will...

00:31:36 Is that why you rented this old farm?

00:34:23 Right now my well is full so you can come by for a bucket or two a day.

00:37:10 No. His mother warned him to avoid folks from Bastides.

00:41:00 - Big ones? - And how!

00:44:05 a monthly yield of 500 rabbits.

00:47:16 Since rainfall is often sporadic...

00:50:23 Within six months he'll be gone.

00:56:13 but it also breaks my heart.

01:01:55 - Was it expensive? - Very expensive!

01:11:43 I'm hungry.

01:18:25 starting tomorrow.

01:22:31 He can go back to tax collecting, but his donkey can't!

01:29:41 A windstorm! I'll run to the Plantier for water!

01:34:44 But I have a special manual that I'll study carefully.

01:38:11 it'll take six months or more.

01:41:21 In a year I'll pay off the mortgage and we'll be set.

01:49:57 Once you pay off your mortgage...

Cast & Characters

Yves Montand Cesar Soubeyran dit 'Le Papet' Gérard Depardieu Jean de Florette Daniel Auteuil Ugolin Elisabeth Depardieu Aimee Cadoret Margarita Lozano Baptistine Ernestine Mazurowna Manon Cadoret enfant Armand Meffre Philoxène André Dupon Pamphile, le menuisier Pierre Nougaro Casimir Jean Maurel Anglade

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,081

Dialogue density8.9 lines / min

First line00:03:01

Final line01:49:57

Production Record

DirectorClaude Berri

LanguageFrench

Budget$4,940,939

IMDb votes28,267