Question: The commercial was a popular, financial, and critical success, boosting sales during the period in which it ran, and receiving more awards than any other campaign in 2002, including a Cannes Gold Lion, an Epica Award and several prizes from the D&AD Awards. It is a 1986 French period drama film directed by Claude Berri, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol 

Context articles: Manon des Sources (1986 film)
Topaze (1933 French film)
Jean de Florette
Good Doctor (advertisement)
Marcel Pagnol
Surfer (advertisement)
César (film)
Topaze (1936 film)
Marius (film)
My Father's Glory

Manon des Sources (] ; meaning Manon of the Spring) is a 1986 French language film.
 Directed by Claude Berri, it is the second of two films adapted from the 1966 two-volume novel by Marcel Pagnol, who wrote it based on his own earlier film of the same title.
 It is the sequel to "Jean de Florette".
 It won an award in 1989 as best french film.
Topaze is a 1933 French comedy film directed by  Louis J. Gasnier and starring  Louis Jouvet, Simone Héliard and Marcel Vallée.
 It is based on the 1928 play "Topaze" by Marcel Pagnol.
 The same year an American version of the play "Topaze" was released, starring John Barrymore.
 In 1936 Pagnol himself remade the film in France.
Jean de Florette (] ) is a 1986 French period drama film directed by Claude Berri, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol.
 It is followed by "Manon des Sources".
 The film takes place in rural Provence, where two local farmers plot to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property.
 The film starred three of France's most prominent actors – Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, who won a BAFTA award for his performance, and Yves Montand in one of his last roles before his death.
Good Doctor (also credited as Doctor or Plague) is a television and cinema advertisement released in 2002 by Interbrew to promote its Stella Artois brand of lager within the United Kingdom.
 The 100-second spot was produced by advertising agency Lowe Lintas & Partners in London.
 "Good Doctor" premiered on British television in January 2002, with later appearances in cinemas.
 It is the seventh piece in the "Jean de Florette"-inspired "Reassuringly Expensive" series that had been running since 1992.
 The advert was directed by Czech director Ivan Zacharias with help from the production company Stink and post-production work by The Moving Picture Company.
 The commercial was a popular, financial, and critical success, boosting sales during the period in which it ran, and receiving more awards than any other campaign in 2002, including a Cannes Gold Lion, an Epica Award and several prizes from the D&AD Awards.
Marcel Pagnol (] ; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker.
 Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française.
 Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film.
Surfer is a critically acclaimed integrated advertising campaign launched in 1999 by Diageo to promote Guinness-brand draught stout in the United Kingdom.
 The cornerstone of the campaign is a television commercial, originally 60 seconds long, which centred on a Polynesian surfer successfully taking on a gigantic wave.
 Shot in Hawaii over a nine-day period and directed by Jonathan Glazer, the piece went on to win more awards than any other commercial in 1999 (Clio Awards, D&AD Awards, Cannes Lions), and in 2002 was voted the "Best ad of all time" in a poll conducted by Channel 4 and "The Sunday Times".
César is a 1936 French film, written and directed by Marcel Pagnol.
 It's the final part of his Marseille trilogy, which began with the film "Marius" and was followed by "Fanny".
 Unlike the other two films in the trilogy, "César" was not based on a play by Pagnol, but written directly as a film script.
 In 1946 Pagnol adapted the script as a stage play.
Topaze is a 1936 French comedy film directed by  Marcel Pagnol and starring Alexandre Arnaudy, Sylvia Bataille and Pierre Asso.
 It is based on the Pagnol's own 1928 play "Topaze".
 A separate adaptation "Topaze" had been directed by Louis J. Gasnier three years earlier.
Marius is a 1931 French drama film directed by Alexander Korda.
 It is based on the play with the same title by Marcel Pagnol.
 The film is a part of a trilogy which includes the films "Fanny" (Marius's ex-fiancee) and "César" (Marius's father).
 The film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
 The restored film was also given a limited re-release in the United States by Janus Films on January 4, 2017, first premiering at Film Forum.
My Father's Glory (French: "La Gloire de mon père" ) is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol.
 Its sequel is "My Mother's Castle".
 It is the first of four volumes in Pagnol's "Souvenirs d'enfance" series.
 It is also a 1990 film based on the novel, and directed by Yves Robert.