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 ...
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.