Synopsis
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
- Roldano LupiBaron Carlo di Santafusca
- Lída BaarováMarinella
- Luigi AlmiranteDon Cirillo
- Carlo LombardiCount Vico di Spiano
- Loris GizziMarquis Usilli
- Luigi PaveseJudge Pavese
- Gionvanni GrassoFrancesco Scuoto, the Lawyer
- Checco RissoneFilippino
- Mario ColliCount Ignazio
- Elio MarcuzzoGirogio Di Sauro
