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Auction History Result 9h124 MANON French 23x32 '49 Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Reggiani, Cecile Aubry, Colin art! Date Sold 2/22/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical French "Affiche" Movie Poster (23x32; measures 22 3/4" x 31 1/4" [58 x 79 cm]) (Learn More) Manon, the 1949 Henri-Georges Clouzot French post World War II (WWII) Nazi collaboration doomed romantic melodrama (loosely based on the classic novel by Abbe Prevost, but greatly altered by director Clouzot; his version deals with a girl at the end of World War II, who "collaborated" with the Nazis, and she is going to be punished, but a French Resistance fighter saves her, and together they descend into a form of Hell from which there is no escape, although they trying to join a group of Jewish refugees looking to go to Palestine!) starring Serge Reggiani, Cecile Aubry (in the title role as Manon Lescaut), Michel Auclair, Gabrielle Dorziat, and Andrex. Note that director Clouzot was himself accused of having collaborated with the Nazis because he made a movie for the German controlled French government, and he was banned from filmmaking for five years, and this was his first film, dealing with a very similar theme, but borrowing heavily from G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box", but merging that plot with post World War II France. Many people consider this movie to be as good or better of a movie as "Diabolique", which is considered by most to be Clouzot's masterpiece, but this film is not nearly as well known, probably both because of its distasteful subject matter and is controversial nature, asking questions that are difficult to answer. Note that when this movie was first released in the United States in 1950, it was likely released as an "arthouse" movie (we can't say for sure, because we have never seen a first release U.S. poster), but it was soon re-released in the U.S. as a sexy foreign film, with all the emphasis on "gorgeous, voluptuous 19 year old Cecile Aubry". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Paul Colin Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this French movie! Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. There is minor separation at the crossfolds and ends of the foldlines. There are some large conservation tape repairs on the back of the poster along the foldlines but they appear to have been placed there mostly for reinforcement purposes. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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