The first installment in Claude Berri’s masterful adaptation of a novel by the legendary Marcel Pagnol is a rich, engrossing epic of greed and deception set amid the Provence countryside. A hunchbacked city slicker is determined to make a success of the farm he has inherited—unaware that his new neighbor and his nephew have launched a ruthless scheme to take control of the land for themselves.
The first installment in Claude Berri’s masterful adaptation of a novel by the legendary Marcel Pagnol is a rich, engrossing epic of greed and deception set amid the Provence countryside. A hunchbacked city slicker is determined to make a success of the farm he has inherited—unaware that his new neighbor and his nephew have launched a ruthless scheme to take control of the land for themselves.
