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Manon
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jean Ferry
Starring Cecile Aubrey
Michel Auclair
Release date(s) March 9, 1949 (1949-03-09) (France)
25 September 1950 (USA)
Running time 100 mins
Country France
Language French

Manon is a 1949 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It is an adaptation of the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost. 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.

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
  • Wanda Ottoni
  • Rosy Varte ... Petit rôle

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Films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feature films
Caprice de Princesse (1933) • Tout pour l'amour (1933) • The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) • Le Corbeau (1943) • Quai des orfèvres (1947) • Manon (1948) • Miquette et sa mère (1949) • Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) (1952) • Les Diaboliques (1954) • Les Espions (1957) • La Vérité (1960) • Grands chefs d'orchestre (1966) • La Prisonnière (1968)
Short films
La Terreur des Batignolles (1931) • Retour à la vie (1949, segment "Le Retour de Jean")
Documentaries
Le Mystère Picasso (1956) • Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem (1967)
Unfinished films
Le Voyage au Brésil (1950) • L'Enfer (1964)
Golden Lion winning films
1949-1969

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 (1965 film) (1967) · Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) · No award (1969) ·
1970-1989

No award (1970) · No award (1971) · No award (1972) · No award (1973) · No award (1974) · No award (1975) · No award (1976) · No award (1977) · No award (1978) · No award (1979) · Atlantic City/Gloria (1980) · Marianne and Juliane (1981) · The State of Things (1982) · First Name: Carmen (1983) · The 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) ·
1990-2009

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) · 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)







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