The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 film)

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]

The Seven Deadly Sins
Theatrical poster
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	1952 (1952)
Running time	148 minutes
Country	France / Italy
Language	French
Box office	2,396,014 admissions (France)[1]

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

1. "Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films". Box Office Story.
2. 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. Monaco, James (1991). The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. pp. 29–30, 71, 464. ISBN 978-0-399-51604-7.

External links

• The Seven Deadly Sins at IMDb
• The Seven Deadly Sins at Film de France