The Farm of Seven Sins

1949 French film

16 September 1949 (1949-09-16)

Running time

90 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

The Farm of Seven Sins (French: La Ferme des sept péchés) is a 1949 French historical drama film directed by Jean Devaivre and starring Jacques Dumesnil, Claude Génia and Aimé Clariond.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert.

Synopsis

During the 1820s, a notorious opponent of France's Bourbon Restoration is murdered in his country house. The authorities investigate whether it was his friends or enemies who killed him.

Awards

The film won the Golden Leopard award at the 1949 Locarno International Film Festival^[2]

Cast

Jacques Dumesnil as Paul-Louis Courier
Claude Génia as Herminie
Aimé Clariond as Le marquis de Siblas
Pierre Renoir as Le procureur Edmond de Chancey
Alfred Adam as Symphorien Dubois
Georges Grey as Pierre Dubois
Palau as Le juge d'instruction / Examining judge
Arthur Devère as Frémont
Héléna Manson as Michèle Frémont dite La Michel
Jacques Dufilho as François Sovignant
René Génin as Le maire d'Azay
Jean Vilar as L'homme gris / Grey man
Georges Bever as Le maire de Luynes
Jean Marchan as Guillaume
Albert Broquin as Un paysan
Harry-Max
Julien Maffre as Un paysan
Albert Malbert as Un paysan
Henri Niel as L'aubergiste
Marcel Pérès as Coupeau

References

^ Crisp p.318
^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2011-08-17.

Bibliography

Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

The Farm of Seven Sins at IMDb

Films directed by Jean Devaivre

La légende de saint Nicolas (1941)
Sirius symphonies (1942)
The King of Dodgers (1945)
Les 2 Camille (1946)
Boîte de nuit (1946)
La pythonisse (1946)
The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948)
The Farm of Seven Sins (1949)
Vendetta in Camargue (1950)
Fugitive from Montreal (1950)
Les anonymes du ciel (1951)
My Wife, My Cow and Me (1952)
A Caprice of Darling Caroline (1953)
Alarm in Morocco (1953)
Caroline and the Rebels (1955)
The Inspector Likes a Fight (1957)

v t e Golden Leopard winning films
1946–1975	And Then There Were None (1946) Man About Town (1947) Germany, Year Zero (1948) The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) Hunted (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) The Composer Glinka (1953) The Glass Wall (1953) Prince Bayaya (1954) Gate of Hell (1954) Wild Fruit (1954) Rotation (1954) The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) Carmen Jones (1955) The Emperor's Nightingale (1955) Il Grido (1957) Ten North Frederick (1958) Killer's Kiss (1959) Il bell'Antonio (1960) Fires on the Plain (1961) The Winner (1962) Transport from Paradise (1963) Black Peter (1964) Four in the Morning (1965) Courage for Every Day (1966) Entranced Earth (1967) The Visionaries (1968) Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Those Who Wear Glasses (1969) Three Sad Tigers (1969) No Path Through Fire (1969) Lilika (1970) Mujo (1970) Soleil O (1970) End of the Road (1970) On the Point of Death (1971) They Have Changed Their Face (1971) The Friends (1971) Private Road (1971) Znaki na drodze (1971) Bleak Moments (1972) The Illumination (1973) Tűzoltó utca 25. (1974) The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975)
1976–2000	The Big Night (1976) Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978) The Herd (1979) To Love the Damned (1980) Chakra (1981) The Princess (1983) Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Alpine Fire (1985) Jezioro Bodeńskie (1986) O Bobo (1987) Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Schmetterlinge (1988) Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989) Accidental Waltz (1990) Johnny Suede (1991) Autumn Moon (1992) The Place on a Grey Tricorne (1993) Khomreh (1994) Raï (1995) Nénette et Boni (1996) The Mirror (1997) Mr. Zhao (1998) Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999) Father (2000)
2001–present	Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001) The Longing (2002) Khamosh Pani (2003) Private (2004) Nine Lives (2005) Das Fräulein (2006) The Rebirth (2007) Parque via (2008) She, a Chinese (2009) Winter Vacation (2010) Back to Stay (2011) The Girl from Nowhere (2012) Story of My Death (2013) From What Is Before (2014) Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) Godless (2016) Mrs. Fang (2017) A Land Imagined (2018) Vitalina Varela (2019) Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021) Regra 34 (2022) Critical Zone (2023)