Manon of the Spring (1952 film)

Manon of the Spring (French: Manon des sources) is a 1952 French two-part drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol and starring Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin and Henri Vilbert.[1][2] 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 released as two separate films, the second under the title Ugolin.

Manon of the Spring
Directed byMarcel Pagnol
Written byMarcel Pagnol
Produced byMarcel Pagnol
StarringJacqueline Pagnol
Raymond Pellegrin
Henri Vilbert
CinematographyWilly Faktorovitch
Edited byJacques Bianchi
Raymonde Bianchi
Music byRaymond Legrand
Production
company
Les Films Marcel Pagnol
Distributed byGaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 16 December 1952 (1952-12-16)
Running time
235 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench, Occitan

It was later turned by Pagnol into the novel The Water of the Hills, augmented with a prequel first part (Jean de Florette), and was adapted again as a 1986 film, alongside Jean de Florette.

Cast

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Crisp 2015, p. 245.
  2. ^ Hayward 2016, p. 42.

Sources

edit
  • Crisp, C. G. (2015). French cinema : a critical filmography. Volume 1, 1929-1939. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01703-1. JSTOR j.ctt16gz9x6. OCLC 911179668.
  • Hayward, Susan (2016). "Middlebrow Taste". In Faulkner, Sally (ed.). Middlebrow cinema. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-315-63056-4. OCLC 945771729 – via Open Research Library.

Further reading

edit
edit