Il cappello da prete (1944)
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
- Date of release
- 1944-11-10
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Crime
- Director
- Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Casting
- Roldano Lupi — Baron Carlo di Santafusca
- Lída Baarová — Marinella
- Luigi Almirante — Don Cirillo
- Carlo Lombardi — Count Vico di Spiano
- Loris Gizzi — Marquis Usilli
- Luigi Pavese — Judge Pavese
- Gionvanni Grasso — Francesco Scuoto, the Lawyer
- Checco Rissone — Filippino
- Mario Colli — Count Ignazio
- Elio Marcuzzo — Girogio Di Sauro
- Anna Capodaglio — Maddalena
- Diana Mercanti — Lellina, the Ballerina
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