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Il cappello da prete (1944)

Il cappello da prete (1944)

Crime
Release Date: 1944, November 10
Directors: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Countries: Italy
Production: Universalcine, Società Italiana Cines, Universalcine, Società Italiana Cines
Cast: Riccardo Billi, Gorella Gori, Mario Pisu, Checco Rissone, Roldano Lupi, Mario Colli, Luigi Pavese, Lída Baarová, Gualtiero Isnenghi, Lydia Simoneschi, Loris Gizzi, Carlo Lombardi

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.