The Well-Digger's Daughter

Twenty-five years after rising to international acclaim in Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, Daniel Auteuil returns to the world of Marcel Pagnol for his first work as director with this celebrated remake of the 1940s classic. Auteuil stars as the eponymous well-digger Pascal, a widower living with his six daughters in the Provence countryside at the start of World War I. His eldest, Patricia (the luminous Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), has returned home from Paris to help raise her sisters, and Pascal dreams of marrying her off to his loyal assistant Felipe (Kad Merad). But when she's impregnated by a wealthy young pilot (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who promptly abandons her for the frontlines, Pascal is left to contend with the consequences. An exquisitely crafted, sun-drenched melodrama, set to a score by Academy Award-nominee Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech), the Well-Digger's Daughter captures all the warmth and humanist spirit of Pagnol's original work.

Director: Daniel Auteuil
Producer: Alain Sarde
Producer: Jerome Seydoux
Actor: Astrid Berg s-Frisbey
Actor: Astrid Bergés-Frisbey
Actor: Chloe Malarde
Actor: Coline Bosso
Actor: Emilie Cazenave
Actor: Sabine Az ma
Actor: Sabine Azéma
Actor: Daniel Auteuil
Actor: Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Actor: Nicolas Duvauchelle
Actor: Kad Merad
Actor: Sabine Azema
Actor: Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Actor: Marie-Anne Chazel
Actor: Brune Coustellier
Actor: François-Eric Gendron
Actor: Ilona Porte
Actor: Jean-Louis Barcelona
Actor: Patrick Bosso