Daniel Auteuil : 2011
The Well Digger's Daughter
Set in the sun-drenched Provençal countryside at the outbreak of World War II, a father is torn between his sense of honour and his deep love for his eldest daughter when she conceives the child of a wealthy shopkeeper's son. As she cuts across the fields to take her father his lunch, Patricia meets Jacques Mazel. She is 18, he is 26. She is pretty, with the fine manners of a young lady; he is a fighter pilot and a handsome young man. A full moon will do the rest on their second meeting. There won't be a third rendez-vous as Jacques is sent to the front. Meanwhile, Patricia finds herself pregnant and the boy's rich parents accuse her of blackmail. Patricia and her father, the well-digger, will alone have the joy of welcoming her child. A joy that the Mazels will soon envy and seek to share when Jacques goes missing in action.
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