Il cappello da prete

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.

Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Writers: Sergio Amidei, Giacomo De Benedetti.

Casts

	Roldano Lupi as Baron Carlo di Santafusca
	Lída Baarová as Marinella
	Luigi Almirante as Don Cirillo
	Carlo Lombardi as Count Vico di Spiano
	Loris Gizzi as Marquis Usilli
	Luigi Pavese as Judge Pavese
	Gionvanni Grasso as Francesco Scuoto, the Lawyer
	Checco Rissone as Filippino
	Mario Colli as Count Ignazio
	Elio Marcuzzo as Girogio Di Sauro
	Anna Capodaglio as Maddalena
	Diana Mercanti as Lellina, the Ballerina
	Riccardo Billi as The Barber
	Oreste Fares as Don Antonio
	Giuseppe Pierozzi as Administrator of the Sacro Monte
	Gualtiero Isnenghi as Priest appointed by the Vicar
	Gorella Gori as Chiarina
	Nicola Maldacea as Filippino's Friend
	Renato Navarrini as
	Pietro Bigerna as
	Giacinto Molteni as Priest
	Clara Piccinni as
	Armando Furlai as
	Maria Melvin as
	Mario Besesti as Francesco Scuoto (voice)
	Olinto Cristina as Don Antonio (voice)
	Mario Pisu as Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)
	Lydia Simoneschi as Marinella (voice)

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