The Monastery of Santa Chiara

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