Manon_(film)

Manon (film)

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

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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.

Preceded by Hamlet	Golden Lion winner 1949	Succeeded by Justice is Done

v • d • e Films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

Feature films	Caprice de Princesse (1933) • Tout pour l'amour (1933) • L'assassin habite au 21 (1942) • Le Corbeau (1943) • Quai des orfèvres (1947) • Manon (1948) • Miquette et sa mère (1949) • 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 en Brésil (1950) • L'Enfer (1964)

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