The Monastery of Santa Chiara

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.

The Monastery of Santa Chiara
Directed byMario Sequi
Written byMichele Galdieri
Vinicio Marinucci
Fulvio Palmieri
Mario Sequi
Produced byIgnazio Senese
StarringEdda Albertini
Massimo Serato
Nyta Dover
CinematographyPiero Portalupi
Edited byGuido Bertoli
Music byRoman Vlad
Production
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Avis Film
Release date
  • 20 May 1949 (1949-05-20)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Synopsis

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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

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

Bibliography

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  • Baron, Lawrence. Projecting the Holocaust Into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
  • Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
  • Klein, Shira. Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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