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The books tell a tale of deception, betrayal and revenge, set in the hills of the massif de l'Étoile, near Pagnol’s home city of Marseille in southern France, in the early 20th century. It is adapted from Pagnol’s 1952 film Manon of the Spring, augmented with the prequel first part.
JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING. Claude Berri’s masterful, multipart adaptation of “The Water of the Hills,” the two-volume novel by Marcel Pagnol, is one of the towering achievements of the French cinema.
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.
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.
A beautiful and relaxing portrait of a slow-paced but hard-working lifestyle--let's walk ten miles daily to get water, but through hills of lavender; with a picnic of bread, sausage, and white wine--and also a great moral story of crime, punishment, love, family, and community.
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When one day she happens upon a hidden spring deep in the hills, she finds her method. But Manon's plans are only a small part of the justice that strikes the guilty ones in the village of Les Bastides Blanches; fate steps in to strike the felling blow to the principal offenders in the areas nearest their hearts.
These Thousand Hills (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
