''Guilt Is Not Mine'' or ''Unjust Condemnation'' (, ) is a 1952 French-Italian

melodrama film In film studies and criticism, melodrama may variously refer to a genre, mode, style or sensibility characterized by its emphasis on intense and exaggerated emotions and heightened dramatic situations. There is no fixed definition of the term an ...

co-written and directed by Giuseppe Masini and starring

Rossano Brazzi Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was known for playing roles that typified the suave, romantic leading man archetype, both in his native country and in Hollywood. ...

Gaby André Gaby André (born Gabrielle Louise Mathilde Andreu; March 5, 1920 – August 27, 1972) was a French film actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor perfo ...

and

Elvy Lissiak Elvy Lissiak (19 July 1929 – 25 February 1996) was an Italian stage and film actress. Life and career Born in Trieste, Italy, as Elvira Lissiak, she made her film debut with the role of Luciana in Luciano Emmer's ''Domenica d'agosto'' (1950 ...

Plot

We are in

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. A

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who devotes himself to scientific research falls in love with Anna, the daughter of a

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...

, who does not approve of the relationship. He is thus courted by other women, among which Barbara proves to be the most enterprising: meanwhile Anna gets engaged and the young doctor begins to suffer. When a

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breaks out, the scientist is accused of not thinking about healing the locals to continue scientific experiments, undergoes a trial and ends up in

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Cast

as Carlo Rocchi *

as Anna Valli *

Sergio Tofano Sergio Tòfano (20 August 1886 – 28 October 1973) was an Italian actor, theatre director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator. As a comics artist, he is best-known for creating '' Signor Bonaventura''. Biography Tofano was born in ...

as Prof. Valli *

as Barbara Soldani *

Umberto Sacripante Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born Umberto Sacripanti in Rome, Sacripante debuted on stage in 1921, and in 1926 he became first actor in the theatrical company Teat ...

as Dante *

Mino Doro Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played supporting and character roles. He appeared as a blackshirt in the 1934 Fascist propaganda f ...

as Archeologo * Fedele Gentile as Ferri *

Ubaldo Lay Ubaldo Lay (14 April 1917 - 27 September 1984) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Rome as Ubaldo Bussa, after graduating in law, Lay was admitted to the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1939, from which he graduated with ...

as Andrea *

Amedeo Trilli Amedeo Trilli (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accademi ...

as Sindaco * Gianna Segale as Gianna * Guido Riccioli as Oste * Nanda Primavera as Ostessa *

Enzo Staiola Enzo Staiola (15 November 1939 – 4 June 2025) was an Italian actor, best known for playing, at the age of eight, the role of Bruno Ricci in Vittorio De Sica's neorealist 1948 film ''Bicycle Thieves''. He appeared in several other films inclu ...

References

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* 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films scored by Alessandro Cicognini Italian drama films French drama films 1952 drama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films 1950s French films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub