The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 film)

The Seven Deadly Sins
Theatrical poster
Directed byEduardo De Filippo
Jean Dréville
Yves Allégret
Carlo Rim
Roberto Rossellini
Claude Autant-Lara
Georges Lacombe
Written byJean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
StarringMichèle Morgan
Françoise Rosay
CinematographyAndré Bac
Roger Hubert
Robert Lefebvre
Jacques Natteau
Giovanni Pucci
Enzo Serafin
André Thomas
Music byYves Baudrier
René Cloërec
Distributed byGaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 1952 (1952)
Running time
148 minutes
CountryFrance / Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office2,396,014 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]

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References

  1. ^ "Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films". Box Office Story.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Oscherwitz, Dayna; Higgins, MaryEllen (2009-09-02). The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-8108-7038-3.
  4. ^ Durant, Philippe (2022-11-23). Gérard Philipe (in French). Nouveau Monde Editions. p. 219. ISBN 978-2-38094-341-2.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
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