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Manon Lescaut (1926)

1926 · Silent film · 141 min · dir. Arthur Robison

  • Drama

Synopsis

In the beginning, Manon Lescaut, a young mistress, is taken away from a convent by the French nobleman des Grieux, who is young as well, under the pretext he's her step brother. The two are in love and the debts are getting bigger each day due to him being disinherited by his father because of the wrong woman he fled with. She gets forced by the desire full and rich Marquis de Bli to stay with him in order to save her disinherited lover. At the acknowledgment of this, he doesn't want her for a…

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Details

Director
Arthur Robison
Writer
Hans Kyser
Cinematography
Theodor Sparkuhl
Studio
UFA
Released
1926-02-15
Running time
141 minutes

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