The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 film)

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

* 1952 (1952)

Running time

| 148 minutes
Countries|

* France
* Italy

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

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* 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

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* 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

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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.

## External links

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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

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Films directed by Claude Autant-Lara

* Filmography

Features|

* Ciboulette (1933)
* The Gutter (1938)
* Fric-Frac (1939)
* Chiffon's Wedding (1942)
* Love Letters (1942)
* Love Story (1943)
* Sylvie and the Ghost (1946)
* Devil in the Flesh (1947)
* Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
* The Red Inn (1951)
* Good Lord Without Confession (1953)
* Le Blé en herbe (1954)
* The Red and the Black (1954)
* Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
* The Anodin Family (1956)
* La Traversée de Paris (1956)
* In Case of Adversity (1958)
* The Gambler (1958)
* The Green Mare (1959)
* The Regattas of San Francisco (1960)
* Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961)
* The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)
* Enough Rope (1963)
* A Woman in White (1965)
* Gloria (1977)

Segments|

* "Pride" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
* "La Bestiole" in Black Humor (1965)
* "Paris Today" in The Oldest Profession (1967)

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Eduardo De Filippo

Films directed|

* In the Country Fell a Star (1939)
* Side Street Story (1950)
* Husband and Wife (1952)
* Ragazze da marito (1952)
* "Avarice and Anger" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
* Neapolitans in Milan (1953)
* Fortunella (1958)
* Kiss the Other Sheik (1965)
* Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)

Plays written|

* Filumena Marturano (1946)
* Il sindaco del Rione Sanità (1960)

Works about|

* I fratelli De Filippo (2021 biopic)

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Films directed by Jean Dréville

* Autour de L'Argent (1928)
* A Man of Gold (1934)
* The Chess Player (1938)
* White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)
* His Uncle from Normandy (1939)
* President Haudecoeur (1940)
* Annette and the Blonde Woman (1942)
* Business Is Business (1942)
* A Cage of Nightingales (1945)
* Hanged Man's Farm (1945)
* The Visitor (1946)
* Carbon Copy (1947)
* The Spice of Life (1948)
* Operation Swallow (1948)
* Return to Life (1949)
* The Girl with the Whip (1952)
* The Secret of the Mountain Lake (1952)
* The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
* Endless Horizons (1953)
* La Reine Margot (1954)
* Stopover in Orly (1955)
* The Suspects (1957)
* A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik (1958)
* La Fayette (1961)
* The Last of the Mohicans (1968)

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Films directed by Roberto Rossellini

* La Vispa Teresa (1939)
* The White Ship (1941)
* A Pilot Returns (1942)
* The Man with a Cross (1943)
* Rome, Open City (1945)
* Desire (1946)
* Paisan (1946)
* L'amore (1948)
* Germany, Year Zero (1948)
* Stromboli (1950)
* The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
* The Seven Deadly Sins (segment: "Envie, L'Envy", 1952)
* The Machine to Kill Bad People (1952)
* Europe '51 (1952)
* We, the Women (segment: "Ingrid Bergman", 1953)
* Mid-Century Loves (segment: "Napoli 1943", 1954)
* Where Is Freedom? (1954)
* Journey to Italy (1954)
* Fear (1954)
* Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954)
* India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
* General Della Rovere (1959)
* Escape by Night (1960)
* Garibaldi (1961)
* Vanina Vanini (1961)
* Anima nera (1962)
* Ro.Go.Pa.G. (segment: "Illibatezza", 1963)
* The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
* Socrates (1971)
* Blaise Pascal (1971)
* Agostino d'Ippona (1972)
* L'età di Cosimo de' Medici (1973)
* Cartesius (1973)
* Anno uno (1974)
* The Messiah (1975)

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Films directed by Yves Allégret

* Tobias Is an Angel (1940)
* Two Timid Souls (1943)
* Box of Dreams (1945)
* Dawn Devils (1946)
* Dédée d'Anvers (1948)
* Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
* Manèges (1950)
* Miracles Only Happen Once (1951)
* Desperate Decision (1952)
* Leathernose (1952)
* The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
* The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
* Oh No, Mam'zelle (1954)
* Oasis (1955)
* The Best Part (1956)
* Young Girls Beware (1957)
* Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (1957)
* The Daughter of Hamburg (1958)
* The Restless and the Damned (1959)
* Jack of Spades (1960)
* Konga Yo (1962)
* Germinal (1963)
* Johnny Banco (1967)

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Seven deadly sins

The sins|

* Lust
* Gluttony
* Envy
* Greed
* Sloth
* Pride
* Wrath

Describing the sins|

* Evagrius Ponticus
* John Cassian
* Pope Gregory I
* Dante Alighieri
* Peter Binsfeld

In art and culture|

* Divine Comedy
* Inferno
* Purgatorio
* The Keys to the Kingdom (book series)
* The Seven Deadly Sins (1585 play)
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* The Seven Deadly Sins (1933 ballet)
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* Seven (1995 film)
* Fullmetal Alchemist (manga series)
* Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 anime)
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009 anime)
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* The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times (painting)
* Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (light novel series)
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* Four Last Things (video game)
* Graveyard Keeper (2018 video game)
* Shazam! (comic book)
* Seven Deadly Enemies of Man
* Shazam! (2019 film)
* Helluva Boss (2020 animated series)
* Limbus Company (2023 video game)
* Hazbin Hotel (2024 animated series)

Related|

* Seven Heavenly Virtues
* Seven Social Sins
* Sin
* Christian views on sin
* Christian views on the Old Covenant
* Hamartiology
* Peter Binsfeld

* Catholicism portal

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