Film

Il cappello da prete

1944 · 1h 30m · Crime

IMDb

6.4

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.

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

Riccardo Billi

The Barber

Oreste Fares

Don Antonio

Giuseppe Pierozzi

Administrator of the Sacro Monte

Gualtiero Isnenghi

Priest appointed by the Vicar

• Ferdinando Maria PoggioliDirector
• Sergio AmideiScreenplay
• Giacomo De BenedettiScreenplay
• Emilio De MarchiNovel
• Sandro GhenziProducer
• Mario SerandreiEditor

Release date

November 10, 1944

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Crime