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The Farm of Seven Sins (French: La Ferme des sept péchés) is a 1949 French historical drama film directed by Jean Devaivre and starring Jacques Dumesnil, Claude Génia and Aimé Clariond.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert.

During the 1820s, a notorious opponent of France's Bourbon Restoration is murdered in his country house. The authorities investigate whether it was his friends or enemies who killed him.

The film won the Golden Leopard award at the 1949 Locarno International Film Festival^[2]

• Jacques Dumesnil as Paul-Louis Courier
• Claude Génia as Herminie
• Aimé Clariond as Le marquis de Siblas
• Pierre Renoir as Le procureur Edmond de Chancey
• Alfred Adam as Symphorien Dubois
• Georges Grey as Pierre Dubois
• Palau as Le juge d'instruction / Examining judge
• Arthur Devère as Frémont
• Héléna Manson as Michèle Frémont dite La Michel
• Jacques Dufilho as François Sovignant
• René Génin as Le maire d'Azay
• Jean Vilar as L'homme gris / Grey man
• Georges Bever as Le maire de Luynes
• Jean Marchan as Guillaume
• Albert Broquin as Un paysan
• Harry-Max
• Julien Maffre as Un paysan
• Albert Malbert as Un paysan
• Henri Niel as L'aubergiste
• Marcel Pérès as Coupeau

• Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.

• The Farm of Seven Sins at IMDb