"It's over here. See. The spring was by the fig tree. Don't look back! Old man Camoins dug a trench that went down to the end of the field there. That way, the water just ran downhill. Understand? Look by my foot. See how soggy the ground is? The water's blocked, but it'd be easy to release it. That slob let it all go to waste!"
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Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette is a 1986 French period drama film directed by Claude Berri, the first of two films adapted from the 1966 two-volume novel The Water of the Hills by Marcel Pagnol, followed by Manon des Sources. The film takes place in rural Provence, where two local farmers scheme to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. At the time the most expensive French film ever made, it was a great commercial and critical success, both domestically and internationally, and was nominated f
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