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The man who planted trees L'homme qui plantait des arbres
Title:
The man who planted trees L'homme qui plantait des arbres
Publication Information:
[Montreal, Quebec] : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; San Francisco, CA : Distributed by The Video Project, [2002]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
A story by Jean Giono translated by Jean Roberts.

Originally produced in 1987.

Supplemental materials: Entrevue avec [interview with] Jean Giono (b&w, 1960) (22 min.); entrevue avec [interview with] Hubert Tison (7 min.); Festivals and awards [text feature]; Photo gallery [slide show].
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Summary:
Set in Provençal France between 1910 and 1945, an anonymous narrator tells of initially meeting, and his subsequent visits with, a taciturn shepherd named Elzéard Bouffier - the 'man who planted trees'. Bouffier, after his wife and child died, moved to a remote and barren area to tend sheep. Seeing the devastated land, he resolved to change it by planting trees. And he did so -- for forty years. The results of this unrecognized, patient, continual effort, were astonishing.
System Details:
DVD.
Language Note:
IN FRANÇAIS OR ENGLISH WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN FRANÇAIS OR ENGLISH.
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