Il cappello da prete

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Ferdinando Maria Poggioli

Writers

Giacomo De Benedetti, Sergio Amidei, Emilio De Marchi

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

10 November 1944

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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