Deceit (1952 film)

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Deceit
Inganno (film).jpg
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Directed by Guido Brignone
Written byGuido Brignone
Bruno Corrà
Produced by Giulio Manenti
Starring Gabriele Ferzetti
Nadia Gray
Tina Lattanzi
Cinematography Mario Albertelli
Edited by Jolanda Benvenuti
Music by Armando Fragna
Production
company
Manenti Film
Distributed byManenti Film
Release date
  • 19 September 1952 (1952-09-19)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Deceit (Italian: Inganno) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Nadia Gray and Tina Lattanzi. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. It was partly shot on location around Trieste.

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Plot

Anna is a policewoman, member of the female section of the Civil Police of the Free Territory of Trieste, she marries Andrea, a doctor with an unclear past but already during the honeymoon begins to have doubts especially after the chance meeting with a former lover of his. Back at work Anna has to investigate this adventurer who seems to be involved not only in drug trafficking but also in the white trade.

Andrea is also involved in the investigation and is suspected of complicity, for this reason Anna decides to separate. Andrea, having failed every attempt to reconcile her, wants to go abroad and also asks for help from her ex-lover but then refuses to collaborate with her precisely because he does not want his wife's suspicions to become certainties.

Meanwhile, Anna discovers she is pregnant and she would like to leave the police to form a family with Andrea but the man is killed by the mother of a girl who underwent an abortion and then died. [2]

Cast

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References

  1. Chiti & Poppi p.192
  2. "Inganno". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-02.

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