''The Priest's Hat'' (Italian: ''Il cappello da prete'') is a 1944 Italian

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thriller

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directed by

Ferdinando Maria Poggioli Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (15 December 1897 – 2 February 1945) was an Italian screenwriter, film editor and director. He directed fifteen films including the 1940 melodrama '' Goodbye Youth''.Gundle p.56 He had previously worked as assistant di ...

and starring

Roldano Lupi Roldano Lupi (8 February 1909 – 13 August 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1942 and 1967. He was born in Milan, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * '' Yes, Madam'' ...

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and

Luigi Almirante Luigi Almirante (30 September 1884 – 6 May 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955. Life and career The son of a stage actor, Almirante was born in Tunis, where the theatrical company of ...

. It is based on the 1888 novel of the same title by Emilio De Marchi.Bondanella & Pacchioni p.54 It was shot at

Cinecittà Studios Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios wer ...

with sets designed by the

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Gastone Simonetti. It was shot in the summer of 1943, but its release was delayed to ongoing war events and it only premiered in

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after the city's liberation by the

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. It belongs to the movies of the

calligrafismo Calligrafismo (, "caligraphism") is an Italian style of filmmaking relating to some films made in Italy in the first half of the 1940s and endowed with an expressive complexity that isolates them from the general context. Calligrafismo is in a sh ...

style.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Peter Bondanella & Federico Pacchioni. ''A History of Italian Cinema''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

External links

* 1944 films 1940s historical drama films Italian historical drama films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli Italian black-and-white films Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Films set in the 1880s Films set in Naples 1944 drama films Films scored by Enzo Masetti 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub