Il cappello da prete (1944)
1h 30m
Running Time
November 10, 1944Release Date
Il cappello da prete (1944)
1h 30m
Running Time
November 10, 1944Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

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

Giovanni Grasso
L'avvocato Francesco Scuoto

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

Gorella Gori
Chiarina

Nicola Maldacea
Filippino's Friend

Giacinto Molteni
Priest

Mario Besesti
Francesco Scuoto (voice)

Olinto Cristina
Don Antonio (voice)

Mario Pisu
Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)

Lydia Simoneschi
Marinella (voice)

Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Director

Sergio Amidei
Screenplay

Giacomo De Benedetti
Screenplay

Sandro Ghenzi
Producer

Enzo Masetti
Music

Arturo Gallea
Cinematography

Mario Serandrei
Editor

Gastone Simonetti
Production Design

Cesare Baietti
Set Decoration

Gino Carlo Sensani
Costume Design

Angelo Besozzi
Production Manager

Italo Tomassi
Painter

Biagio Fiorelli
Sound

Roberto Caggiani
Conductor

Emilio De Marchi
Novel

Clara Piccinni
Details.
Wiki.
The Priest's Hat (Italian: Il cappello da prete) is a 1944 Italian historical thriller drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Roldano Lupi, Lída Baarová and Luigi Almirante. It is based on the 1888 novel of the same title by Emilio De Marchi.
It was shot at Cinecittà Studios with sets designed by the art director Gastone Simonetti. It was shot in the summer of 1943, but its release was delayed to ongoing war events and it only premiered in Rome after the city's liberation by the Allies. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style.
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