No Sun in Venice

May 31, 1957

1h 36m

★ 5.1

Overview

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Carol Film

Iéna Productions

Union Cinématographique Lyonnaise (UCIL)

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Cast

Sophie

Françoise Arnoul

Michel Lafaurie

Christian Marquand

Sforzi

Robert Hossein

Eric von Bergen

O.E. Hasse

Busetti

Franco Fabrizi

Bernard

Franco Andrei

Jeannot

Carlo Delle Piane

Inspecteur

Mario Passante

Lisa

Lyla Rocco

Comtesse

Margaret Rung

Coco

Christian Cazau

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