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Manon is a 1949 French drama film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair and Cécile Aubry. 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, and was a popular success with over three million tickets sold in France.
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Surprisingly, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1949. Clouzot adapted the controversial 18th-century novel by Abbe Prevost, "Manon Lescaut" (today best known for its opera incarnations) and updated it to post-WWII France. Manon is literally a "bad woman" who craves riches and uses her sexuality to get it.
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Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive. Henri-Georges Clouzot. Director, Screenplay. Abbé Prévost.
The Burial of Manon Lescaut (1878), by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. The two lovers finally end up in New Orleans, to which Manon has been deported as a prostitute, where they pretend to be married and live in idyllic peace for a while. But when Des Grieux reveals their unmarried state to the Governor, Étienne Perier, and asks to be wed to Manon ...
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
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A former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution and murder.
