The Monastery of Santa Chiara

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The Monastery of Santa Chiara
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Directed by Mario Sequi
Written by Michele Galdieri
Vinicio Marinucci
Fulvio Palmieri
Mario Sequi
Produced byIgnazio Senese
Starring Edda Albertini
Massimo Serato
Nyta Dover
Cinematography Piero Portalupi
Edited by Guido Bertoli
Music by Roman Vlad
Production
company
Avis Film
Release date
  • 20 May 1949 (1949-05-20)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

The Monastery of Santa Chiara (Italian : Monastero di Santa Chiara) is a 1949 Italian war melodrama film directed by Mario Sequi and starring Edda Albertini, Massimo Serato and Nyta Dover. [1] [2] [3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Angelo Zagame.

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Synopsis

During the Second World War Ester a Jewish nightclub singer in Naples has to flee the city to escape persecution and deportation from the occupying German forces. She is helped by her SS officer lover who takes her to safety in a monastery. He then commits suicide. While she survives a bombing raid, she is persecuted by Greta the dead man's discarded German lover.

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References

  1. Bayman p.192
  2. Baron p.104
  3. Klein p.227

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