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.
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Director
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
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Gionvanni Grasso
Francesco Scuoto, the Lawyer
Checco Rissone
Filippino
Mario Colli
Count Ignazio
Elio Marcuzzo
Girogio Di Sauro
Anna Capodaglio
Maddalena
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