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THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER (LA FILLE DU PUISATIER)
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Completed - FRENCH - Drama

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2011 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Daniel AUTEUIL
Writer(s) : Based On The Novel By Marcel Pagnol
Cast : Daniel AUTEUIL, Astrid BERGES-FRISBEY, Kad MERAD, Nicolas DUVAUCHELLE, Jean-Pierre DARROUSSIN

Producer(s) : Alain SARDE

Synopsis

As she cuts across the fields to take her father his lunch Patricia meets Jacques. She is eighteen, he is twenty-six. She is pretty, with the fine manners of a young lady, he is a fighter pilot and a handsome young man. A full moon will do the rest on their second meeting. There won’t be a third meeting: Jacques is sent to the front.
Patricia ends up pregnant. The boy’s rich parents talk about blackmail. Patricia and her father, the well-digger, will alone have the joy of welcoming her child. A joy that the Mazels will soon envy and seek to share when Jacques goes missing in action…

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

AUSTRALIA MADMAN ENTERTAI
AUSTRALIA SBS TELEVISION
CANADA ASTRAL TELEVISI
COLOMBIA CINE COLOMBIA S
NETHERLAND May 09, 2013 A-FILM BENELUX
USA KINO LORBER INC

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