''Loving You Is My Sin'' (Italian: ''Amarti è il mio peccato (Suor Celeste)'') is a 1953 Italian

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directed by

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and starring Jacques Sernas,

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and Elisa Cegani.Morreale p.134

Cast

* Jacques Sernas as Count Giorgio Danieli *

as Elena Galassi Monti * Elisa Cegani as Countess Danieli - Giorgio's mother * Alba Arnova as Valeria Ferri - Elena's friend *

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as Sister Luisa * Patrizia Lari as Countess Laura Danieli - Giorgio's sister * Pina Piovani as The Mother Superior *

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as Monti - Elena's father * Giulio Battiferri as Tanzi - the police commissioner *

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as Guidi - Valeria's wooer *

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* Giuseppe Taffarel as Mario Natali - the blind captain *

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as Giorgio Monti - Elena's son

References

Bibliography

* Emiliano Morreale. ''Così piangevano: il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni Cinquanta''. Donzelli Editore, 2011.

External links

* 1953 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Sergio Grieco 1953 drama films French drama films Italian drama films 1950s melodrama films Italian black-and-white films French black-and-white films 1950s Italian films 1950s French films Films scored by Ezio Carabella {{1950s-Italy-film-stub