La Route du bagne
104 mins
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...
Paulette Élambert
La Pâlotte
Régine Montlaur
Câline
Jean Darvey
Production Manager
Roland Quignon
Art Direction
Lucien Masson
Producer
Lucien Lacharmoise
Sound
Henri Verdun
Original Music Composer
Marguerite Beaugé
Editor
Pierre Lestringuez
Writer
Pierre-Gilles Veber
Novel
Léonce-Henri Burel
Director of Photography