Kino buys Auteuil pic

Kino Lorber has acquired all U.S. privileges to vet thesp Daniel Auteuil's directorial debut "The Well-Digger's Daughter" (La Fille du puisatier), a remake of Marcel Pagnol's 1940 classic film.Pic toplines Auteuil, up-and-comer Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sabine Azema and Nicolas Duvauchelle.Pic continues to be selected to unspool in the NY Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in March. Darroussin will attend the big event.Kino Lorber will release the film in June at NY's Lincoln subsequently Plaza Movie theaters and can expand the theatrical rollout with other major marketplaces within the summer time. VOD and homevid releases follows later around.Arranged around the eve of World war 2 in Southern France, the melodrama focuses on a properly digger and the 18-year-old daughter. She falls for each other and it has a young child by having an upper-class youthful pilot who's been sent off and away to war.Auteuil broke through a lot more than twenty five years ago in Claude Berri's "Jean p Florette" and "Manon from the Spring," both modified from Pagnol.The thesp-helmer can also be aboard to direct the remake of Pagnol's nineteen thirties trilogy "Marius," "Fanny" and "Cesar." Photos is going to be created by Alain Sarde's AS Films and Jerome Seydoux's Pathe, who last teamed on "The Well-Digger's Daughter."Deal was discussed between Kino Lorber's Boss Richard Lorber and Pathe's professional Vice president of worldwide sales, Muriel Sauzay. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com