The Parisian-born Claude Berri was something of a cinematic one-man band. He began his professional life as an actor in French films but soon segued to being a writer, producer, director and ...

At times, the French countryside of Jean De Florette and Manon Of The Spring is almost unbearably beautiful. French director Claude Berri and cinematographer Bruno Nuytten set their two-part morality ...

Claude Berri spent six years trying to acquire the rights to Marcel Pagnol's 1962 Water in the Hills dualogy. Inspired by Pagnol's own 1952 feature, Manon Des Sources, the story chronicled the ...

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***** Manon of the Spring: Where were we? Oh, yes. In France. At the end of Jean de Florette, we were in provincial France. And we were sad because Jean had been driven to his death by the evil ...

Claude Berri, a fixture for more than 50 years in contemporary French cinema as an actor, writer, director and producer, died Monday. He was 74.His agent, Dominique Segall, said Berri died of a ...

The Marcel Pagnol novel that inspired Claude Berri's 1986 twin features, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, was itself a literary reworking of Pagnol's penultimate theatrical feature in 1953.

Following the success of Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources, interest was sufficiently stirred in author Marcel Pagnol to fuel two features based on his childhood memoirs in a sun-drenched ...

French director and producer Claude Berri, whose films included the international hit Jean De Florette, has died. He was 74. Berri was hospitalised at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris at the ...

Re-release for highly popular French film duo from the Eighties (Manon des Sources is back next week). Depardieu plays the hunchback peasant farmer whose strangeness causes him to be persecuted by his ...