The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 film)
| The Seven Deadly Sins | |
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| Directed by | Eduardo De Filippo Jean Dréville Yves Allégret Carlo Rim Roberto Rossellini Claude Autant-Lara Georges Lacombe  | 
| Written by | Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost  | 
| Starring | Michèle Morgan  Françoise Rosay  | 
| Cinematography | André Bac  Roger Hubert Robert Lefebvre Jacques Natteau Giovanni Pucci Enzo Serafin André Thomas  | 
| Music by | Yves Baudrier René Cloërec  | 
| Distributed by | Gaumont Distribution | 
Release date  | 
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Running time  | 148 minutes | 
| Countries | 
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| Language | French | 
| Box office | 2,396,014 admissions (France)[1] | 
The Seven Deadly Sins (French: Les Sept Péchés capitaux) is a 1952 French/Italian co-production motion picture drama.[2] The film stars Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Viviane Romance,[3] Maurice Ronet, Louis de Funès, Isa Miranda, Henri Vidal and Gérard Philipe.[4] It has seven separate sections: ("Pride/L'Orgueil", "Lust/La Luxure", "Sloth/La Paresse", "Envy/L'Envie", "Avarice and Anger/L'Avarice et la colère", "Gluttony/La Gourmandise", "The Eighth Sin/Le Huitième péché") with five episodes from France, and two episodes from Italy.[5]
Director
- Claude Autant-Lara (segment "Pride")
 - Yves Allégret (segment "Lust")
 - Jean Dréville (segment "Sloth")
 - Roberto Rossellini (segment "Envy")[2]
 - Eduardo De Filippo (segment "Avarice and Anger")
 - Carlo Rim (segment "Gluttony")
 - Georges Lacombe (segment "The Eighth Sin")
 
Writer
- Diego Fabbri
 - Liana Ferri
 - Léo Joannon
 - Turi Vasile
 - René Wheeler
 - Claude Autant-Lara (segment "Pride")[6]
 - Jean Aurenche (segments "Pride", "Lust", "The Eighth Sin")[6]
 - Pierre Bost (segments "Pride", "Lust", "The Eighth Sin")[6]
 - Daniel Boulanger (segment "Gluttony")[6]
 - Carlo Rim (segments "Sloth", "Gluttony")
 - Roberto Rossellini (segment "Envy")
 - Charles Spaak (segment "Avarice and Anger")[6]
 
References
- ^ "Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films". Box Office Story.
 - ^ a b Forgacs, David; Lutton, Sarah; Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (2019-07-25). Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-83871-782-7.
 - ^ Oscherwitz, Dayna; Higgins, MaryEllen (2009-09-02). The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-8108-7038-3.
 - ^ Durant, Philippe (2022-11-23). Gérard Philipe (in French). Nouveau Monde Editions. p. 219. ISBN 978-2-38094-341-2.
 - ^ Godin, Christian (2018-04-06). Ce que sont devenus les péchés capitaux (in French). Editions du Cerf. p. 28. ISBN 978-2-204-12525-3.
 - ^ a b c d e Monaco, James (1991). The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. pp. 29–30, 71, 464. ISBN 978-0-399-51604-7.
 
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to I sette peccati capitali (film 1952).
- The Seven Deadly Sins at IMDb
 - The Seven Deadly Sins at Film de France
 
 
