ISBN: 7598395229 Year Added to Catalog: 1995 Book Format: VHS Number of Pages: 30 minutes Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Old ISBN: 7598395229 Release Date: March 17, 1997
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER
Best Animated Short Film 1988
An animated retelling of the classic story by Jean Giono.
The richness and flavour of Jean Giono's language along with the poetry and magic colours of Frédéric Back all come together in a captivating film entitled The Man Who Planted Trees, a film of exceptional artistic vision and personal warmth.
The narrator, well-known actor Christopher Plummer, tells of a plain and good man, who possesses an innate feel for nature and who manages to create a forest in a desolate and arid area.
About the Authors
Jean Giono
Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France's greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English. Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II. He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died.
Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding collected work by ...
Frédéric Back is the Acadamy Award-winning director of the animated short The Man Who Planted Trees, adapted from the story by Jean Giono. He lives in Canada. ...
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