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Release Date:
November 10, 1944
Original Title:
Il cappello da prete
Genres:
Crime
Production Companies:
Società Italiana Cines
Universalcine
Production Countries:
Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 90
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.
Cinematography:
Arturo Gallea
Conductor:
Roberto Caggiani
Costume Design:
Gino Carlo Sensani
Director:
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Editor:
Mario Serandrei
Music:
Enzo Masetti
Novel:
Emilio De Marchi
Painter:
Italo Tomassi
Producer:
Sandro Ghenzi
Production Design:
Gastone Simonetti
Production Manager:
Angelo Besozzi
Screenplay:
Sergio Amidei
Giacomo De Benedetti
Set Decoration:
Cesare Baietti
Sound:
Biagio Fiorelli
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