The Well-Digger's Daughter ( La fille du puisatier ) ( The Well Digger's Daughter )

The Well-Digger's Daughter (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Original Title: La fille du puisatier
Alternate Title: The Well Digger's Daughter
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Daniel Auteuil

Written By:
Daniel Auteuil
Marcel Pagnol

Actors:
Daniel Auteuil ..... Pascal Amoretti
Kad Merad ..... Félipe Rambert
Sabine Azéma ..... Mme Mazel
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... M. Mazel
Nicolas Duvauchelle ..... Jacques Mazel
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey ..... Patricia Amoretti
Emilie Cazenave ..... Amanda
Marie-Anne Chazel ..... Nathalie
Coline Bosso ..... Isabelle
Chloé Malarde ..... Marie
Brune Coustellier ..... Léonore
Ilona Porte ..... Roberte
Jean-Louis Barcelona ..... Le commis
Patrick Bosso ..... Le garçon
François-Eric Gendron ..... Le capitaine

Synopsis:

It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Beautiful village girl Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal (Daniel Auteuil), who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, Jacques, the son of Mazel, owner of the shop where her father buy his material. He's handsome and teasing. Her father's friend, Felipe, would love to marry her, and he invites her to an aviation show. She accepts his invitation only because she knows Jacques is a pilot and will be there. Soon, she'll carry his child, and he'll be gone, and the family will have to deal with this out-of-wedlock pregnancy...

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 rendezvous: Jacques is sent to the front. Patricia finds herself pregnant. The boy's rich parents accuse her of 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...

A father, in pre-World War I France, is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 10 March, 2012.

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