The Well-Digger's Daughter - Daniel Auteuil

Original Title: La Fille du puisatier
Based on the novel by Marcel Pagnol from the academie francaise
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Screenwriter: Daniel Auteuil
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Producer/s: Alain Sarde
Production: Les Films Alain Sarde, Pathé
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Wardrobe: Karin Charpentier, Elsa Le Guichard
Distribution: Pathé
Nationality : France
Genre : Romance
Release Date : 27 April 2011 (France)
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Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Astrid Berges-frisbey, Sabine Azéma, Jean-pierre Darroussin

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…

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