Manon Lescaut (1970)

Release Date: 1970-12-25
Runtime: 1h 36min
Production Company: Československ&aacute; televize Praha
Production Country: Czechoslovakia
Director: Josef Henke

A television adaptation of the poetic play by Vítězslav Nezval. The love story of the knight de Grieux and the sinful saint Manon was staged for the television screen with an extraordinary sense of poetic value in 1970. Poetic salons with many mirrors, decorative candlesticks, flowing curtains.