Overview
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as Professor
- Silvana Mangano as Marquess Bianca Brumonti
- Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel
- Claudia Marsani as Lietta Brumonti
- Stefano Patrizi as Stefano
- Elvira Cortese as Erminia
- Philippe Hersent as Doorman
- Guy Tréjan as Art Dealer
- Jean-Pierre Zola as Blanchard
- Umberto Raho as Police Inspector Bernai