The Seven Deadly Sins (1952 film)

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The Seven Deadly Sins
Theatrical poster
Starring	Michèle Morgan Françoise Rosay
Music by	Yves Baudrier René Cloërec
Cinematography	André Bac Roger Hubert Robert Lefebvre Jacques Natteau Giovanni Pucci Enzo Serafin André Thomas
Distributed by	Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont Arlan Productions (USA)
Release date(s)	1952
Running time	148 min
Country	France / Italy
Language	French

The Seven Deadly Sins (French: Les Sept péchés capitaux) is a 1952 French/Italian co-production motion picture drama. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Viviane Romance, Maurice Ronet, Louis de Funès, Isa Miranda, Henri Vidal and Gérard Philipe. 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.

[edit] Director

Claude Autant-Lara (segment "Pride")
Yves Allégret (segment "Lust")
Jean Dréville (segment "Sloth")
Roberto Rossellini (segment "Envy")
Eduardo De Filippo (segment "Avarice and Anger")
Carlo Rim (segment "Gluttony")
Georges Lacombe (segment "The Eighth Sin")

[edit] Writer

Diego Fabbri
Liana Ferri
Léo Joannon
Turi Vasile
René Wheeler
Claude Autant-Lara (segment "Pride")
Jean Aurenche (segments "Pride", "Lust", "The Eighth Sin")
Pierre Bost (segments "Pride", "Lust", "The Eighth Sin")
Carlo Rim (segments "Sloth", "Gluttony")
Roberto Rossellini (segment "Envy")
Charles Spaak (segment "Avarice and Anger")

[edit] External links

The Seven Deadly Sins at the Internet Movie Database
The Seven Deadly Sins at AllRovi
The Seven Deadly Sins at Film de France

v t e Seven Deadly Sins

The Sins	Lust Gluttony Greed Sloth Wrath Envy Pride

Persons who categorized and described the Sins	Evagrius Ponticus John Cassian Pope Gregory I Dante Alighieri Peter Binsfeld

Representations in art and culture	Divine Comedy - Inferno, Purgatorio (Dante) The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (Bosch) The Seven Deadly Sins (Weill) The Seven Deadly Sins (Autant-Lara, Allégret, Dréville, Rossellini, De Filippo, Rim, Lacombe) The Seven Deadly Sins (de Broca, Chabrol, Demy, Dhomme, Douy, Godard, Ionesco, Molinaro, Vadim) The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (Henson) The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times (White) Seven (Fincher)