Manon (film)

Manon

Directed by	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Produced by	Paul-Edmond Decharme
Written by	Henri-Georges Clouzot Jean Ferry
Starring	Cécile Aubry Michel Auclair
Production company	Alcina
Distributed by	Les Films de Jeudi DisCina (US)
Release dates	March 9, 1949 (1949-03-09) (France) 25 September 1950 (US)
Running time	100 mins
Country	France
Language	French

Manon (French pronunciation: [manɔ̃]) is a 1949 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It is a loose adaptation of the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost.

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Cast

Serge Reggiani ... Leon Lescaut
Michel Auclair ... Robert Dégrieux
Cécile Aubry ... Manon Lescaut
Andrex ... Le trafiquant
Raymond Souplex ... M. Paul
André Valmy ... Lieutenant Besnard / Bandit Chief
Henri Vilbert ... Le commandant du navire / Ship's Captain
Héléna Manson ... La commère (une paysanne normande)
Dora Doll ... Juliette
Simone Valère ... Isé, la soubrette
Gabrielle Fontan ... La vendeuse à la toilette
Gabrielle Dorziat ... Mme Agnès
Wanda Ottoni
Rosy Varte ... Petit rôle

Plot

Clouzot updates the setting to World War II, making the story about a French Resistance fighter who rescues a woman from villagers convinced she is a Nazi collaborator.

External links

Manon at the Internet Movie Database
Manon at AllMovie

Films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

Feature films	All for Love (1933) The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) Le Corbeau (1943) Quai des Orfèvres (1947) Manon (1949) Miquette (1950) The Wages of Fear (1953) Les Diaboliques (1955) Les Espions (1957) The Truth (1960) La prisonnière (1968)

Short films	Return to Life (1949, segment "Le Retour de Jean")

Documentaries	The Mystery of Picasso (1956)

Unfinished films	Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (1964)

Golden Lion winning films

1949–1968	Manon (1949) Justice Is Done (1950) Rashomon (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) No award (1953) Romeo and Juliet (1954) Ordet (1955) No award (1956) Aparajito (1957) Rickshaw Man (1958) General Della Rovere / The Great War (1959) Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Family Diary / Ivan's Childhood (1962) Hands over the City (1963) Red Desert (1964) Sandra (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Belle de Jour (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

1980–2000	Atlantic City / Gloria (1980) Marianne and Juliane (1981) The State of Things (1982) First Name: Carmen (1983) A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Vagabond (1985) The Green Ray (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Urga (1991) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Short Cuts / Three Colors: Blue (1993) Vive L'Amour / Before the Rain (1994) Cyclo (1995) Michael Collins (1996) Fireworks (1997) The Way We Laughed (1998) Not One Less (1999) The Circle (2000)

2001–present	Monsoon Wedding (2001) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Return (2003) Vera Drake (2004) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Still Life (2006) Lust, Caution (2007) The Wrestler (2008) Lebanon (2009) Somewhere (2010) Faust (2011) Pietà (2012) Sacro GRA (2013) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) From Afar (2015) The Woman Who Left (2016)

Antoine François Prévost's Manon Lescaut

Films	Manon Lescaut (1926) When a Man Loves (1927) Manon (1949) Manon 70 (1968)

Operas	The Maid of Artois (1836) Manon Lescaut (1856) Manon (1884) Manon Lescaut (1893) Le portrait de Manon (1894) Boulevard Solitude (1952)

Other	L'histoire de Manon "Donna non vidi mai"

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