''The Priest's Hat'' () is a 1944 Italian

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thriller

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directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring

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and Luigi Almirante. It is based on the 1887 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) 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 were constru ...

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 style.

Cast

References

Bibliography

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

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* 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 Films based on Italian novels Films based on crime novels Italian-language historical drama films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub