Il saprofita (internationally released as The Profiteer) is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Sergio Nasca. It marked the directorial debut of Nasca and raised some controversies due to its polemic plot and to its violence.
Cast
Al Cliver : Ercole
Valeria Moriconi : The Baroness Clotilda
Janet Agren : Teresa
Giancarlo Marinangeli: Parsifal
Cinzia Bruno: Brunilde
Leopoldo Trieste : Don Vito
Rina Franchetti : Bigot
Nerina Montagnani : The servant of the Holy Man
Clara Colosimo : Lady at the wake
Giancarlo Badessi : Superior of the Seminary
Carlo Monni : General Augusto Bezzi
Plot
In a small town in Apulia , the seminarian Ercole, who failed to become a priest due to an injury that caused him to lose his speech, is hired as driver and male nurse into a rich and apparently pious family of landowners, and soon became the lover of the beautiful Baroness Clotilde.