LES SEPT PECHES CAPITAUX

Les Sept Péchés capitaux is a film with sketches Franco-Italian realized in 1951.

Personal comments : Louis de Funès is marked in the credits, he plays the role of a French grouser, he appears :

1 minute and 25 seconds at 36 minutes and 38 seconds after the beginning of the movie

♦ Various sketches and directors :

Sketches are the following ones :

1. L'Avarice et la colère, realized by Eduardo De Filippo
2. La Paresse, realized by Jean Dréville
3. La Luxure, realized by Yves Allégret
4. La Gourmandise, realized by Carlo Rim
5. L'Envie, realized by Roberto Rossellini
6. L'Orgueil, realized by Claude Autant-Lara
7. Le Huitième péché, realized by Georges Lacombe

♦ Synopsis :

In a fun fair, a leader of play attracts the idlers and famous for them the 7 capital sins :

• 1 : An owner, Mr. Alvaro, whose woman is irascible, refuses a time with the one of his tenants, Edouardo, which cannot pay its rent. The last anger of the wife will make it possible to the tenant to discharge his debt.

• 2 : Once more, the men manufacture machines ever more more fatal ; Saint Pierre sends on ground the Idleness to moderate their heat. The world falls then into the lethargy. The saint must come him even among the men to ask the Idleness to moderate his heat. Balance is then restored.

• 3 : The first agitations of a teenager, Chantal, who believes itself pregnant, bring closer that which it believes being her seducer, Ravila, and its mother, Mrs. Bianca, beautiful the landlord.

• 4 : Lodged for the night by a couple of peasants, a doctor of countryside, Antonin, are invited, after the supper during which it extremely appreciated an excellent cheese, to divide the layer of its hosts. The sensual country-woman makes some advances with her guest and asks him what it wishes. Antonin rises at once to finish cheese.

• 5 : Camille a young Frenchwoman jealous of the affection that her husband Olivier, a painter, carries to his she-cat, throws cat-like top of a terrace. Realizing that his wife is envieuse, the painter separates from it.

• 6 : Reverses of fortune fell down on Mrs. de Pallières and her Anne-Marie daughter. The latter, guest with a reception, refuses to lend itself to the excavation which follows the flight of a jewel, then it throws its bag in which one discovers some sandwiches that it had subtilized to bring them to her mother. The found jewel, it leaves the ball proudly.

• 7 : The finished illustration the juggler harangue crowd while asking him not to succumb to the eighth capital sin, imagination, and never not to give an opinion on only appearances.

♦ Specification sheet :

• Title : Les sept péchés capitaux
• Realization : (various sketches and directors)
• Scenario, Adaptation, Dialogues :
• 1 : Edouardo de Filippo, Charles Spaak, According to a piece of news of Hervé Bazin
• 2 : Carlo Rim
• 3 : Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, According to a piece of news of Barbey d'Aurevilly
• 4 : Carlo Rim
• 5 : Diego Fabbri, Roberto Rossellini, Liana Ferri, Turi Vasile, according La Chatte de Colette
• 6 : Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Claude Autant-Lara
• 7 : René Wheeler, according to an idea of Léo Joannon
• Images : Enzo Serafin (1 and 5), André Thomas (2), Roger Hubert (3), Robert Le Febvre (4 and 7), André Bac, Jacques Natteau (6)
• Music : Georges Auric (2), Yves Baudrier (3 and 5), René Cloërec (6)
• Decorations : Ugo Boettler (1 and 5), Georges Wakhévitch, Auguste Capelier (2), Alexandre Trauner, Auguste Capelier (3), Auguste Capelier (4), Max Douy (6 and 7)
• Suits : Pierre Balmain for Michèle Morgan
• Editing : Claude Nicole (2), Louisette Hautecoeur (4 and 5), Madeleine Gug (6)
• Shooting from 10 till 23 December, 1951 (1), from December 13th till January 3rd, 1952 (2), from 15 till 31 October, 1951 (3), from 9 till 15 January, 1952 (4), from January 21st till February 8th, 1952 (6), from 18 till 21 February, 1952 (connection), from 6 till 18 October, 1951 (5)
• Sound : Georges Leblond (2), Louis Kieffer (4), Jean Rieul (6, 6 and 7)
• Make-up : Jean Ulysse (2), Alexandre Ranesky (4), Boris Karabanoff (5), Yvonne Fortuna (6), Carmen Brel (7)
• Photographer of tray : Raymond Voinquel
• Script-girl : Madeleine Lefèvre (2, 4 and 5), Denise Gaillard (6), Dagmar Bolin (7)
• General manager : Jean Mottet (2, 4, 5, 6), André Hoss (7)
• Production assistant : Paul Feyder (2)
• Director of production : Léon Canet (2, 4, 5), Lucien Carré (6)
• Production : Franco-London Film (paris), Film Costellazione (Rome)
• Italian title : I sette peccati capitali
• Distribution : Gaumont
• First presentation the 30/04/1952

♦ Distribution :

Sketch 1

• Isa Miranda : Mme Alvaro
• Eduardo De Filippo : Edouardo
• Paolo Stoppa : Mr Alvaro

Sketch 2

• Louis de Funès : Gaston Martin, the French grumbler
• Noël-Noël : Saint-Pierre
• Jacqueline Plessis : The Laziness
• Madeleine Barbulée : The heavenly secretary
• Paul Azaïs : The boss of the restaurant
• Janine Miller : The operator
• Jean Solar : The heavenly secretary
• Guy Henry
• Claire Olivier
• Pierre Latour
• Marius David
• Bernard Farrel
• Germaine Stainval

Sketch 3

• Viviane Romance : Mme Bianca
• Franck Villard : Ravila
• Francette Vernillat : Chantal
• Jacques Fabbri : Julien
• Maurice Ronet : The priest
• Philippe Richard : The bishop
• Claude Arvelle
• Sophie Sel
• Nicole Regnault
• Laure Paillette

Sketch 4

• Henri Vidal : Henri and Antonin
• Claudine Dupuis : The farmer
• Jean Richard : The farmer
• Paul Faivre : A dinner guest
• Yvonne Yma : A dinner guest

Sketch 5

• Andrée Debar : Camille
• Orféo Tamburi : Olivier
• Nicola Ciarletta : The model

Sketch 6

• Michèle Morgan : Anne-Marie De Pallières
• Françoise Rosay : Elisabeth De Pallières
• Jean Debucourt : Mr Signac
• Marcelle Praince : The president
• Louis Seigner : The uncle Henri
• Robert Auboyneau : The young man
• Marguerite Cassan : Isabelle
• Frédérique Hébrard : La jeune fille
• Yolande Laffon : Mme Signac
• Sacha Pitoeff : The pianist
• Yves Brainville : The commander
• Claire Gérard
• Julienne Paroli

Sketch 7

• Gérard Philipe : The quizmaster and the painter
• Robert Dalban : The fairground entertainer
• Alfred Baillou

With :

• Blanche Denège
• Marcelle Ferry
• Jacqueline Monsigny
• Michèle Nancey
• Eugène Yvernes
• Gabriel Gobin
• Frédéric Valmain
• Louis Vonelly
• Georges Sauval
• Gaston Garchery
• Jean Verner

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