Screenplay: Jean Giono

Direction Frédéric Back

Plot The story of Elzeard Bouffier, who over 35 years quietly cultivated a magnificent forest in a desolate area of France. The tale is told by a young traveler who happens...

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Raimu · Ginette LeClerc · Fernand Charpin · Robert Vattier

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Juliette Binoche · Olivier Martínez · Claudio Amendola · François Cluzet

Plot Year 1832. Cholera outbreak in southern France, while Italians try to wrest independence from Austrian control. Colonel Angelo Pardi is an Italian nobleman with a purchased rank in the cavalry,...

Direction François Leterrier

Cast Claude Giraud · Colette Renard · Charles Vanel · Pierre Repp

Plot A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France.

Direction François Villiers

Cast Pascale Audret · Charles Blavette · Henri Arius · Odette Barencey

Direction Marcel Camus

Cast Hardy Krüger · Charles Vanel · Catherine Deneuve · Marilú Toló

Direction Jean Giono

Cast Fernandel · Marcelle Ranson-Hervé · Rellys · René Génin

Plot This story is set in a little mountain community lost in the French mountains in the early years after World War II. Jules [Fernandel] is a lonely shepherd, gently going...

Direction Gérard Vergez

Cast Marlène Jobert · Gérard Klein · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Wadeck Stanczak

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Vincent Scotto · Henri Poupon · Annie Toinon · Odette Roger

Plot Jofroi, an ageing farmer, has sold his orchard in La Maussan to Fonse. When the latter comes to cut the old trees down, Jofroi wants to kill him. Soon, everyone...

Direction Christian Marquand

Cast Robert Hossein · Renato Salvatori · Anouk Aimée · Andrée Turcy

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Orane Demazis · Fernandel · Henri Poupon · Jean Servais

Plot A naive young woman leaves the farm where she has been raised. She gets seduced and absued and is then abandoned.

Direction Marcel Pagnol

Cast Fernandel · Gabriel Gabrio · Orane Demazis · Marguerite Moreno

Plot One by one, the inhabitants of a provincial French village depart, until only the poacher Panturle remains. He dreams of finding a wife and bringing the village back to life....