Overview
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
Cast
- Nino Manfredi as Monsignor Colombo
- Danilo Mattei as Cesare Costa
- Carmen Scarpitta as la comtesse Flaminia
- Salvo Randone as le pape noir
- Ettore Manni as Il conte Ottavio
- Giovannella Grifeo as Teresa
- Carlo Bagno as Perpetuo
- Gabriella Giacobbe as Maria Tognetti
- Camillo Milli as Don Marino
- Rosalino Cellamare as Gaetano Tognetti