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For some men, land and water are more precious than flesh and blood.
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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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Directed by: Bruno Nuytten, Claude Berri, Xavier Castano
Produced by: Pierre Grunstein, Alain Poiré
Composed by: Jean-Claude Petit
Cast

Yves Montand
César Soubeyran, aka 'le Papet'

Gérard Depardieu
Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette

Daniel Auteuil
Ugolin Soubeyran, nephew of Papet

Elisabeth Depardieu
Aimée Cadoret, wife of Jean

Margarita Lozano
Baptistine, Piedmontese of the cave

Ernestine Mazurowna
Manon Cadoret, daughter of Jean & Aimée

Armand Meffre
Philoxène, mayor

André Dupon
Pamphile, joiner

Pierre Nougaro
Casimir

Jean Maurel
Anglade, believer
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