Manon of the Spring (1952 film)

Manon of the Spring
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Directed by	Marcel Pagnol
Produced by	Marcel Pagnol
Written by	Marcel Pagnol
Starring	Jacqueline Pagnol Raymond Pellegrin Henri Vilbert
Music by	Raymond Legrand
Cinematography	Willy Faktorovitch
Edited by	Jacques Bianchi Raymonde Bianchi
Production company	Les Films Marcel Pagnol
Distributed by	Gaumont Distribution
Release dates	16 December 1952
Running time	235 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Manon of the Spring (French: Manon des sources) is a 1952 French drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin and Henri Vilbert. It was shot at Marseille Studios and on location around La Treille and Aubagne. The film's sets were designed by the art director Eugène Delfau. It was later adapted by Pagnol into a novel of the same title, which was later adapted as a 1986 film.

Cast

• Jacqueline Pagnol as Manon des Sources
• Raymond Pellegrin as Maurice, L'Instituteur
• Henri Vilbert as Le Curé
• Rellys as Ugolin
• Fernand Sardou as Philoxène, le Maire
• Annie Roudier as La Mère de l'instituteur
• Edmond Ardisson as Ange, le Fontainier
• Henri Arius as Claudius, le Boucher
• André Bervil as Anatole, le Boulanger
• Charles Blavette as Pamphile, le Menuisier
• Jean-Marie Bon as Cabridan
• Marguerite Chabert as La Mère de Polyte
• Luce Dassas as Femme d'Ange
• Daxely as Josias, frère de Jonas
• Del Bosco as Jonas, frère de Josias
• Édouard Delmont as Anglade
• Alfred Goulin as Le grand Bossu
• Marcelle Géniat as Baptistine, la Piémontaise
• Jenny Hélia as Aricie, femme de Cabridan
• Christian Lude as L'Ingénieur
• Julien Maffre as Pétugue, le Forgeron
• Jeanne Mars as Nathalie
• Marthe Marty as Sidonie
• Milly Mathis as Amélie, la Femme du Menuisier
• Jean Panisse as Eliacin
• Henri Poupon as Le Papet
• René Sarvil as Le Brigadier
• Jean Toscan as Polyte
• Andrée Turcy as La Bouchère
• Jacques Valois as Le Directeur des Bauxites
• Robert Vattier as Monsieur Belloiseau

Bibliography

• Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.
• Faulkner, Sally (ed.) Middlebrow Cinema. Routledge, 2016.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Manon of the Spring at IMDb