The Seven Deadly Sins
Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Release: 1962-03-07
·Runtime: 113m
·★ 5.6
Comedy
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Production Countries
France
Italy
Production Companies
Les Films Gibé
Franco London Films
Titanus
Cast
Corinne Marchand
as Girl on the Street (segment "La luxure") (uncredited)
Albert Michel
as Le Suisse à l'Église (segment "La gourmandise") (uncredited)
Roger Vadim
as Le Récitant (segment "L'orgueuil") (uncredited)
Claude Rich
as Armand (segment "L'avarice")
Marie-José Nat
as La Jeune Femme (segment "La colère")
Perrette Pradier
as La Speakerine (segment "La colère")
Claude Berri
as André (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Danièle Lebrun
as (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
Gino Santercole
as Musician on TV (Segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Claude Brasseur
as Riri (segment "L'envie")
Dominique Paturel
as Le Mari (segment "La colère")
Nane Germon
as La Dame au Café (segment "La colère")
Serge Bento
as Jean (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Rico López
as Le Bagarreur (uncredited)
Jean Murat
as Duchemin (segment "L'envie")
Eddie Constantine
as Self (segment "La paresse")
Bernard Evein
as Loving Couple Man (segment "La luxure") (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (segment "La colère") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Max Montavon
as Henri (segment "L'orgueuil") (uncredited)
Nicole Berger
as (segment "La luxure") (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Geneviève Casile
as Rita Gerly (segment "L'envie")
Magdeleine Bérubet
as Nénesse - la Belle-Mère (segment "La gourmandise")
Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Bernard Duparc (segment "La luxure")
Adriano Celentano
as Self (segment "La colère") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Desailly
as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
Henri Virlogeux
as Antonin (segment "La gourmandise") (uncredited)
Sacha Briquet
as Harry (segment "L'avarice")
Georges Wilson
as Valentin (segment "La gourmandise")
Marcelle Arnold
as L'Épouse de Valentin (segment "La gourmandise")
Laurent Terzieff
as Jacques (segment "La luxure")
William Sabatier
as Policeman (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Raymond (segment "L'avarice")
Marina Vlady
as Catherine Lartigue - la Femme (segment "L'orgueuil")
France Anglade
as (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
Claude Chabrol
as Le Pharmacien (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Jacques Charrier
as Antoine (segment "L'avarice")
Dany Saval
as Rosette (segment "L'envie")
Jean-Pierre Aumont
as Jean Lartigue - le Mari (segment "L'orgueuil")
Nicole Desailly
as (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Paul Préboist
as Alphonse - le Facteur (segment "La gourmandise")
Henri Guégan
as Un Bagarreur (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Massoulier
as Pierre (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Jean-Marc Tennberg
as Le Gendarme (segment "La colère")
Claudine Auger
as La Nouvelle Servante (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
Tsilla Chelton
as (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Yves Gabrielli
as (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
Claude Mansard
as L'Homme à la Pipe (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Jeanne Pérez
as La Vestiaire (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Nicole Mirel
as Self (segment "La paresse")
Paul Demange
as M. Verdier (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
André Jocelyn
as Yvan (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Bernard Papineau
as Albert (segment "L'avarice") (uncredited)
Micheline Presle
as Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard (segment "La luxure")
Sami Frey
as François - l'Amant (segment "L'orgueuil")
Paulette Dubost
as Madame Jasmin (segment "L'envie'") (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Brialy
as Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
Michèle Girardon
as Héloïse - la Maîtresse (segment "L'orgueuil")
André Chanal
as Jacques (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Berthe Granval
as Une Vendeuse (segment "L'orgueuil") (uncredited)
Geneviève Thénier
as Loving Couple Woman (segment "La luxure") (uncredited)
Jacques Monod
as Monsieur Jasmin (segment "L'envie")
Crew
Jacques Demy
Director, Screenplay
Édouard Molinaro
Director
Max Douy
Production Design, Co-Director
Félicien Marceau
Screenplay, Dialogue
Sacha Distel
Original Music Composer
Pierre Jansen
Original Music Composer
Roger Vadim
Director, Screenplay
Bernard Evein
Production Design
Guy Gilles
Assistant Director
Philippe de Broca
Director
Daniel Boulanger
Screenplay, Dialogue
Eugène Ionesco
Screenplay
Henri Decaë
Director of Photography
Pierre Lhomme
Camera Operator
Jean Penzer
Director of Photography
Michel Legrand
Original Music Composer
Claude Chabrol
Director, Screenplay
Jean-Luc Godard
Director, Screenplay
Roger Peyrefitte
Idea
Alain Levent
Camera Operator