Marking the beginning of French Challenge, a major season of BBC television and radio programmes with a French flavour, this film is the first of Claude Berri's two-part adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's novel L'eau de collines and stars Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu
In the sunburned hills of 1920s Provence, where possession of water can mean life or death, a young newcomer finds his book-learning is no match for the wiles of covetous peasants. Showing in widescreen format. In French with English subtitles.
(1986) (The sequel, Manon des sources, can be seen on Monday at 12.40pm)
FILM REVIEWS pages 41-47