
Overview
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…
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on The Solitude of Compassion
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Marcel PagnolScreenplay
- Jean GionoNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 16, 1934
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France
























