Il cappello da prete

Il cappello da prete

90 mins | Crime | Nov. 10, 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.

Il cappello da prete

90 mins | Crime | Nov. 10, 1944

Il cappello da prete
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.
Producers Universalcine, Società Italiana Cines
Original title Il cappello da prete
Directors Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Writers Emilio De Marchi, Giacomo De Benedetti, Sergio Amidei

Cast

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

Giacinto Molteni

as Priest

Mario Besesti

as Francesco Scuoto (voice)

Olinto Cristina

as Don Antonio (voice)

Mario Pisu

as Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)

Lydia Simoneschi

as Marinella (voice)