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.

Genres

Cast

Roldano Lupi

Baron Carlo di Santafusca

Lída Baarová

Marinella

Luigi Almirante

Don Cirillo

Loris Gizzi

Marquis Usilli

Luigi Pavese

Judge Pavese

Checco Rissone

Filippino

Mario Colli

Count Ignazio

Riccardo Billi

The Barber

Giuseppe Pierozzi

Administrator of the Sacro Monte

Gorella Gori

Chiarina

Pietro Bigerna

Giacinto Molteni

Priest