The Profiteer

The Profiteer
Directed by	Sergio Nasca
Cinematography	Giuseppe Aquari
Music by	Sante Maria Romitelli
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	1974 (1974)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

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 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 a driver and male nurse by a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon becomes 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.

External links

• The Profiteer at IMDb
• The Profiteer at Variety Distribution