The Well-Digger's Daughter

Name: The Well-Digger's Daughter
Released: 2011
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 65.49842602308499
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle

La Fille du puisatier

65%

Romance / Drama

France, 2011, 107 min

Directed by:

Daniel Auteuil

Based on:

Marcel Pagnol (book)

Screenplay:

Marcel Pagnol (original screenplay), Daniel Auteuil

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Plots(1)

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. (Pathé Distribution UK)

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