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.
Nino Manfredi
Monsignor Colombo
Danilo Mattei
Cesare Costa
Carmen Scarpitta
la comtesse Flaminia
Salvo Randone
le pape noir
Ettore Manni
Il conte Ottavio
Giovannella Grifeo
Teresa
Carlo Bagno
Perpetuo
Gabriella Giacobbe
Maria Tognetti
