Il cappello da prete (1944)
Crime
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.
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Baron Carlo di Santafusca
Marinella
Maddalena
Lellina, the Ballerina
The Barber
Don Antonio
Administrator of the Sacro Monte
Priest appointed by the Vicar
Chiarina
Filippino's Friend
Don Cirillo
Priest
Francesco Scuoto (voice)
Don Antonio (voice)
Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)
Marinella (voice)
Count Vico di Spiano
Marquis Usilli
Judge Pavese
Francesco Scuoto, the Lawyer
Filippino
Count Ignazio
Girogio Di Sauro
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