Cast
Director
Luca Manfredi
Marco Cassini as Gaetano Tognetti
Gigi Proietti as cardinal Romeo Colombo da Priverno
Lino Toffolo as Serafino (cardinal Colombo's servant)
Sandra Ceccarelli as countess Flaminia Ricci
Domenico Diele as Cesare Costa
Francesco Venditti as Giuseppe Monti
Jerzy Stuhr as Pierre-Jean Beckx (head of the Jesuits)
Arnaldo Ninchi as Pope Pius IX
Renato Scarpa as cardinal Belloni
Greta Scarano as Teresa Ferri
Paola Tiziana Cruciani as Maria Tognetti
Massimo Wertmüller as prosecutor
Camillo Milli as judge
Paolo Calabresi as master Pietro
Duccio Camerini as count Ottavio Ricci
Roberta Mattei as Lucia Monti