Cagliostro (1975 film)

Cagliostro
Directed by	Daniele Pettinari
Written by	Pier Carpi Daniele Pettinari Enrica Bonaccorti
Starring	Bekim Fehmiu Curd Jürgens Evelyn Stewart Anna Orso Adolfo Lastretti Luigi Pistilli Rosanna Schiaffino Robert Alda Massimo Girotti
Cinematography	Giuseppe Pinori
Edited by	Adriano Tagliavia
Music by	Manuel De Sica
Release date	1975 (1975)
Language	Italian

Cagliostro is a 1975 Italian biographical drama film directed by Daniele Pettinari. ^[1] Loosely based on the real life events of Alessandro Cagliostro, the film has many historical inaccuracies, including the claim that Giuseppe Balsamo and Cagliostro were two different persons. ^[2]

Cast

• Bekim Fehmiu as Cagliostro / Giuseppe Balsamo
• Curd Jürgens as Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, future Pope Pius VI
• Rosanna Schiaffino as Lorenza Balsamo
• Evelyn Stewart as Serafina Cagliostro
• Massimo Girotti as Giacomo Casanova
• Robert Alda as Pope Clement XIII
• Luigi Pistilli as Cardinal Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan-Guéménée
• Anna Orso as the Queen
• Adolfo Lastretti as the Camerlengo
• Alessandro Haber as the beggar
• Franco Ressel as Morandi
• Antonio Pierfederici as the naturalist monk
• Luigi Montini as Prelate
• Ada Pometti as French noblewoman
• Corrado Annicelli

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
2. Piero Perona (20 January 1975). "Il Cagliostro a St-Vincent porta grane in anteprima". Stampa Sera . p. 6.

External links

• Cagliostro at IMDb