Jean Giono

Theatre play broadcast live from the Théâtre André Malraux in France.

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..

In a small village of Haute-Provence, it is an event. The abandoned bakery comes back to life. Aimable and his wife Aurélie bring out the first batch of bread for the happiness of the inhabitants. Among the first customers, Dominique, a young shepherd, does not leave Aurélie indifferent...

1832년 콜레라가 프랑스 프로방스에 퍼져 많은 사람이 죽어갔다. 오스트리아의 침략으로 나라를 잃은 이탈리아인들은 프랑스 인근을 중심으로 독립 운동을 벌이고 있었다. 기병대장 앙젤로는 군자금을 모으기 위해 프랑스에 있는 쥬세페를 찾아가는 도중 오스트리아 기병들에게 쫓기게 되었고 한 저택의 지붕에 숨어있다 어느 저택으로 숨는다. 그곳에서 저택의 주인인 폴린을 만났고 그녀의 도움으로 무사히 고비를 넘긴다. 그 후 앙젤로는 지원금을 전하기 위해 이탈리아로 향하는데 이탈리아로 가는 도중 남편을 찾아가는 폴린을 만난다. 우연한 만남으로 둘은 함께 이탈리아로 향했고, 서로에게 끌린다. (최성진)

프로방스 지방의 어느 고원지대. 사람들의 분별없는 욕망으로 폐허가 된 마을들, 나무를 마구 베어 살벌한 바람만 불어대는 버림받은 땅, 이 황량한 땅이 매일 나무를 심고 가꾸는 한 양치기의 외롭고 헌신적인 노력으로 숲이 다시 살아나고 맑은 강물이 흐르며 새들이 지저귀는 생명의 땅으로 되살아난다.

젊은 나무꾼 르 베송이 벌목을 위해 산으로 올라간지 수개월이 지나도 소식이 없자, 아버지 마틀로(샤를르 바넬 분)는 친구이자 강의 사나이인 안토니오(하디 크루거 분)와 함께 아들을 찾아 나선다. 그러다 숲에서 아기를 낳은 장님 클라라(카트린느 드뇌브 분)를 만나게 되는데, 안토니오는 절망에 가득한 그녀의 커다란 눈을 바라보며 마음이 흔들리지만 르 베송을 위해 클라라를 버리고 떠난다. 한편 고원에서는 모드뤼가 목동들을 앞세워 르 베송과 전쟁을 치르는데, 르 베송은 모드뤼의 외동딸 지나와 사랑에 빠지고, 지나와 정혼한 모드뤼의 조카는 르 베송과 결투를 하게 된다.

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.

Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…

Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…

A mayor agrees to marry his daughter Zainab to her cousin against her will, so she escapes and her cousin is determined to kill her . She meets a young doctor who takes her in. They agree to marry when he returns from his scholarship in Europe three years later, but she bears a child and joins a band.

The heroine in L'Eau Vive is the unwilling heir to a fortune. Young Hortense (Pascale Audret) has always known that her family was greedy, but until she inherits her father's hidden millions she has no idea how loathsome her relatives could be. Surrounded on all sides by grubby, outstretched hands, Hortense takes some comfort in the fact that her legacy is still missing. When the money is finally recovered, our heroine does the "right thing" with her windfall, leaving her mercenary family empty-handed. Throughout the film, Hortense's dilemma is likened to a government dam project not far from her home; as the bridge grows in size, so too does Hortense's resolve to rise above the nastiness all around her.

프로방스의 작은 마을에 사는 중년의 제빵사 에마블레 카스타니에에 관한 영화. 젊은 아내 오렐리(지네트 레클레르)가 그를 버리고 젊고 잘생긴 목동을 따라 떠나버리자 슬픔에 빠진 제빵사는 빵 만드는 일을 그만둔다. 그러자 마을 전체가 제대로 돌아가지 않는다. 카톨릭 신부와 좌익 성향의 교사, 영주를 비롯한 모든 마을 사람들이 서로 갈등하던 과거를 잊고 제빵사의 아내를 다시 데려오기 위해 힘을 모으는데..

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other - fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono.

Jofroi sells his orchard to Alphonse. Alphonse wants to use the land for crops, so he starts to cut down the trees. Jofroi is furious: how can someone cut down those trees? He threatens to commit suicide so that the small town will blame Alphonse and Alphonse’s life will be miserable. Alphonse, the curate, the teacher, and some of the townsfolk spend the rest of the movie trying to keep Jofroi from committing suicide…