MANON OF THE SPRING (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Director Claude Berri's lush sequel to Jean de Florette is 'a brilliantly realized achievement...that will inspire and fascinate' (Boxoffice). Completing the saga based on Marcel Pagnol's novel The Water of the Hills, Manon of the Spring stars Daniel Auteuil (Queen Margot), Yves Montand (The Wages of Fear) and Emmanuelle Beart (Mission: Impossible) who, 'with the charm of a young Bardot or Deneuve, gives a startling performance' (The Hollywood Reporter).; ; It's been ten years since her father's death left Manon (Beart) tending goats in the rugged hills of Provence. Struggling to make her way in the world, Manon has no idea that her neighbor Cesar Soubeyran (Montand) and his nephew, Ugolin (Auteuil), cheated her out of her father's land. But when Manon discovers that the Soubeyrans were directly responsible for her father's tragic death, she goes after the two men with a fierce vengeance worthy of her proud and courageous heritage.
• Cast: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy, Ticky Holgado, Jean Bouchaud, Elisabeth Depardieu, Gabriel Bacquier, Armand Meffre, André Dupon, Pierre Nougaro, Jean Maurel, Roger Souza, Didier Pain, Pierre-Jean Rippert, Marc Betton, Chantal Liennel, Lucien Damiani, Fransined, Françoise Trompette, Claude Berri, Marcel Pagnol, Gérard Brach, Alain Poiré, Bruno Nuytten, Hervé de Luze, Geneviève Louveau, Jean-Claude Petit
• Director: Claude Berri
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: Renn Productions, Orion Pictures, MGM Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie