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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. The film's sets were designed by the art director Angelo Zagame.
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.
Cast
Edda Albertini as Ester di Veroli
Massimo Serato as Rudolf, ufficiale delle SS
Nyta Dover as Greta
Lamberto Picasso as Il tedesco condannato
Nino Manfredi as Enrico
John Kitzmiller as Il negro
Paolo Reale as Ciccillo
Mario Corte as Il prete
Fausto Guerzoni as Un pensionante
Italia Marchesini as Donna Filomena, madre di Enrico
Eduardo Passarelli as Il prestigitatore
Bianca Doria as La sorella del prete
Bruno von Barens as L'ufficiale tedesco
Alberto Moravia as Himself
References
Bibliography
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.
External links
The Monastery of Santa Chiara at IMDb