The Profiteer

Film
The Profiteer
Directed bySergio Nasca
CinematographyGiuseppe Aquari
Music bySante Maria Romitelli
Distributed byVariety Distribution
LanguageItalian

Il saprofita (internationally released as The Profiteer) is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Sergio Nasca.[1] It marked the directorial debut of Nasca and raised some controversies due to its polemic plot and to its violence.[2]

Cast

  • Al Cliver : Ercole
  • Valeria Moriconi : The Baroness Clotilda
  • Janet Agren : Teresa
  • Giancarlo Marinangeli: Parsifal
  • Cinzia Bruno: Brunilde
  • Leopoldo Trieste : Don Vito
  • Rina Franchetti : Bigot
  • Nerina Montagnani : The servant of the Holy Man
  • Clara Colosimo : Lady at the wake
  • Giancarlo Badessi : Superior of the Seminary
  • Carlo Monni : General Augusto Bezzi

Plot

In a small town in Apulia, the seminarian Ercole, who failed to become a priest due to an injury that caused him to lose his speech, is hired as driver and male nurse into a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon became the lover of the beautiful Baroness Clotilde.

References

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
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