Manon of the Spring (1953) - Jacqueline Pagnol, Rellys, Raymond Pellegrin

Loading Page

Movie: Manon of the Spring

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jacqueline Pagnol

Manon des sources

Rellys

Ugolin

Raymond Pellegrin

Bernard, l'instituteur

Henri Poupon

Le Papet

Robert Vattier

M. Belloiseau, le retraité

Fernand Sardou

Philoxène, le maire

Henri Vilbert

Le curé

Charles Blavette

Pamphile, le menuisier

Milly Mathis

Amélie, la femme de Pamphile, le menuisier

Edmond Ardisson

Ange, le fontainier

HomePage
Overview
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Release Date
1953-01-16
Average
6.632
Rating:
3.3 starts
Tagline
Genres
Drama Comedy Romance Family
Languages:
Français
Keywords
provence rural area marcel pagnol french

Recommendations Movies

72%

My Mother's Castle(fr)

1990-10-26

To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseille, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.

1990-10-26

73%

My Father's Glory(fr)

1990-08-29

Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes friends with Lili, who teaches him about rural life.

1990-08-29

64%

My Summer in Provence(fr)

2014-04-02

In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hours, a clash of generations has occurred between the teenagers and the old man. During this turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by one another.

2014-04-02

74%

School of Life(fr)

2017-02-22

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.

2017-02-22

66%

A California Christmas: City Lights(en)

2021-12-16

Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

2021-12-16

77%

Jean de Florette(fr)

1986-08-27

In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.

1986-08-27

64%

Moliere(fr)

2007-01-31

Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.

2007-01-31

64%

The Longshots(en)

2008-08-22

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

2008-08-22

58%

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding(en)

2011-09-13

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

2011-09-13

64%

Father of the Bride(en)

2022-07-21

A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.

2022-07-21

60%

The Time of Secrets(fr)

2022-03-23

Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and unearthed secrets.

2022-03-23

65%

Save the Last Dance(en)

2001-01-12

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.

2001-01-12

71%

Rosaline(en)

2022-10-11

Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

2022-10-11

70%

The Odd Life of Timothy Green(en)

2012-08-15

A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

2012-08-15

61%

Chéri(en)

2009-04-08

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

2009-04-08

75%

The Beasts(fr)

2022-07-20

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

2022-07-20

64%

A California Christmas(en)

2020-12-14

With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas.

2020-12-14

68%

Roll Bounce(en)

2005-09-23

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

2005-09-23

69%

Kings & Queen(fr)

2004-12-22

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.

2004-12-22

74%

Stargirl(en)

2020-03-10

An unassuming high schooler finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves…and their world.

2020-03-10

Similar Movies

63%

Olivier, Olivier(fr)

1992-10-28

Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother.

1992-10-28

61%

That Old Dream That Moves(fr)

2001-03-31

A young technician arrives at a French factory that is about to be closed down to dismantle a piece of machinery so that it can be transported for use at another location.

2001-03-31

39%

Julie and Me(fr)

1998-10-30

Two friends meet after 15 years. They have a complicated and intimate past that becomes impossible to deny in spite of intentions to the contrary.

1998-10-30

54%

In the Winter Dark(en)

1998-09-10

Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.

1998-09-10

67%

Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women(hi)

2005-01-26

A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers, ...

2005-01-26

70%

Rospiggar(sv)

1942-09-03

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1942-09-03

70%

Song of the Scarlet Flower(sv)

1956-12-26

Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

1956-12-26

61%

Los energéticos(es)

1980-01-21

A couple of rival farmers discover the plan to build a nuclear power plant on their lands, and decide to ally to avoid it.

1980-01-21

83%

Letter from the Mountain(ja)

2002-10-05

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

2002-10-05

43%

August(en)

1996-08-08

Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."

1996-08-08

52%

Robinson i Roslagen(sv)

1948-09-25

To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.

1948-09-25

42%

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored(en)

1996-01-26

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

1996-01-26

81%

Prisoners(en)

2013-09-19

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

2013-09-19

63%

Way Back Home(en)

1931-11-13

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

1931-11-13

66%

Aftermath(pl)

2012-11-09

Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.

2012-11-09

63%

Brother and Sister(ja)

1953-08-19

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

1953-08-19

61%

Naïs(fr)

1945-11-17

Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin's daughter. That summer, the estate owner's son, Frederic Rostaing, decides to rest on the farm during his vacation from Law school. But his real motives are to seduce young Nais, whom he knows from their childhood days, after having seen her in town. Who will win the power struggle between the possessive father, the naive daughter, the vile student and the golden-hearted cripple?

1945-11-17

59%

Come Next Spring(en)

1956-03-09

Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.

1956-03-09