La Route du bagne

Overview

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...

Directed by Léon Mathot

Top cast

Viviane Romance

Manon

Lucien Coëdel

Rabouin

Clément Duhour

Gilbert

P

Paulette Élambert

La Pâlotte

Paul Amiot

Odette Barencey

G

Georges Biscot

C

Cadex

Marc Cassot

Simone Cerdan

Janeton

Charlotte Dauvia

Y

Yvonne Ducaux

Marguerite Ducouret

Soeur Prudence

T

Thérèse Dulac

Georges Flateau

Maurice Lagrenée

R

Raymond Loyer

Jean-Jacques Lécot

Olivier Mathot

Jean Meyer

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