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    Poster of the movie L'Eau vive
    1958     Drama    
    France
    1h 36min
    Original language: French

    Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated because a dam is being built on the River Durance and his estate is to be flooded. He receives thirty million francs in compensation but dies soon after. Hortense, his only daughter, inherits the money but the trouble is that Félix has hidden the loot somewhere and it is nowhere to be found. All of Hortense's next of kin suddenly take an interest in the "poor orphan" and those greedy ones - with the exception of kind-hearted uncle Simon - put pressure on the girl, and try - through wile, threat and even murder, to inveigle her inheritance. But however young and frail Hortense is, she is nobody's fool.

    Directed byFrançois Villiers
    Written byAlain Allioux, Jean Giono
    CompanyContinental DistributingContinental DistributingContinental Distributing

    Starring

    Pascale Audret
    Charles Blavette
    Henri Arius
    Odette Barencey
    Jean Clarens
    Hélène Gerber
    Harry-Max
    Hubert de Lapparent
    Robert Lombard
    Pierre Moncorbier
    Jean Panisse
    Maurice Sarfati
    Jean-Marie Serreau
    Madeleine Sylvain
    Arlette Thomas
    Milly Mathis
    Germaine Kerjean
    Andrée Debar

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