
Il cappello da prete
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.
Director Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Cast

Lída Baarová
Marinella

Luigi Pavese
Judge Pavese

Mario Colli
Count Ignazio

Pietro Bigerna

Mario Besesti
Francesco Scuoto (voice)

Loris Gizzi
Marquis Usilli

Riccardo Billi
The Barber

Armando Furlai

Olinto Cristina
Don Antonio (voice)

Mario Pisu
Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)

Luigi Almirante
Don Cirillo

Checco Rissone
Filippino

Giuseppe Pierozzi
Administrator of the Sacro Monte

Gorella Gori
Chiarina

Giacinto Molteni
Priest

Roldano Lupi
Baron Carlo di Santafusca