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The Man Who Planted Trees (1987) on Netflix

NR198730mAnimationDrama

In 1913 Provence, a young traveler stranded and thirsty in a dry Alpine valley meets Elzéard Bouffier, a lone shepherd. Bouffier spends his years planting trees there, season after season.

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A young man traveling on foot in 1913 comes to a dry, treeless stretch of Provence, in the foothills of the Alps, with nothing to drink. There he meets Elzéard Bouffier, a shepherd who lives alone and who gives him help. Bouffier has set himself a long task: to plant trees across the bare land around him. He works alone, planting year after year, and keeps at it while the First World War and the Second pass over the country. The traveler returns to the same valley more than once over the following decades, and each time he finds the old man still at his planting, and the landscape changed by it.

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