Movielogr
Il cappello da prete (1944)
Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Overview
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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Roldano Lupi | Lída Baarová | Luigi Almirante | Carlo Lombardi | Loris Gizzi | Luigi Pavese | Gionvanni Grasso | Checco Rissone | Mario Colli | Elio Marcuzzo | Anna Capodaglio | Diana Mercanti | Riccardo Billi | Oreste Fares | Giuseppe Pierozzi | Gualtiero Isnenghi | Gorella Gori | Nicola Maldacea | Renato Navarrini | Pietro Bigerna | Giacinto Molteni | Clara Piccinni | Armando Furlai | Maria Melvin | Mario Besesti | Olinto Cristina | Mario Pisu | Lydia Simoneschi